Early Ideas About Evolution Flashcards
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What does it mean species?
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A species is a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can repro- duce and have fertile offspring.
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What is evolution?
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Evolution is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors
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What does it means fossils?
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fossils are traces of organisms that existed in the past.
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The theory of catastrophism means
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states that natural disasters such as floods and volcanic eruptions have happened often during Earth’s long history.
