Evolution Flashcards
believed in 2 words: the real worlds and illusionary world
Plato
believed that all living organisms could be arranged in a “scale of nature” of GREATE CHAIN OF BEING
Aristotle
Darwin noticed similarities between extinct and extant organism
Fossils
Darwin made observation regarding the resemblance of species in South America
Resemblance
Darwin’s ideas were published in the book ________ which remains famous and relevant until today
On the Origin of Species
all species have common ancestry
Common Descent
refers to the process by which organisms change and evolve to form a distinct new species
Speciation
the change that happens to species does so over very long periods of time
Gradualism
organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce
Natural Selection
genetic explains the mechanism for the coding of traits
Mechanism
genetics provides a basis for the inheritance of traits
Inheritance
genetics explains how the traits of populations change over time
Changes
refers to both the mechanism of adjusting to environmental changes and features that organisms have or use to survive in their habitats
Adaptation
refers to the changes that occur during a species evolutionary history
Phylogenetic Change
the field that studies the comparisons between the structure of organism to establish their evolutionary relationship
Comparative Anatomy