Charles Darwin And Theory Of Evolution Prt 1

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Theory

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A well supported idea in science that explains all observations from a phenomenon; all observations, experiments support the theory, no evidence disagrees with the theory

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Evolution

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Change in populations over time

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Charles Darwin

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Wrote “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” after taking a 5 year voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle and visiting the Galápagos Islands

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Alfred Russell Wallace

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Also developed the idea of natural selection by means of natural selection at the same time as Darwin

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Artificial selection

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Selecting desired traits for the purpose of breeding animals like dogs, cats, cattle (what caused the evolution for all the different kind of dog breeds)

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Natural selection

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When organisms with a desirable variation survive, reproduce, and pass on that favorable variation to future generations

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Fitness

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The ability to survive, reproduce and pass on traits to future generations

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Survival of the fittest

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Another way of thinking of natural selection

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Galápagos Islands

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Where Darwin visited and observed many organism that helped shape his ideas of natural selection

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Overproduction

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More babies are born that can survive in a population

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Variation

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All individuals in a population are genetically different (due to the presence of mutations that accumulate variety in a species)

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Selection pressure

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Any factor that results in natural selection (like a drought, a predator, competition for food)

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Best adapted

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Those individuals that are best adapted are most fit

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Many generations

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Over a long time

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Adaptation

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Any variation that improves the chances of an organisms surviving, reproducing, and passing on its traits to future generations

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Camouflage

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An example of an adaptation in which species can blend in to their surroundings

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Mimicry

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A example of an adaptation which species can cope the appearance of a more dangerous organism