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How is used Evolutionary Biology?

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  • interpret and understand organismal adaptation to environmental changes
  • explain the diversity of life
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Who was Charles Darwin? And why is he important in EB?

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C.D. wrote “On the origin of species” in 1859 and introduced the concept of Natural Selection: evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generation.
Natural selection is the survival of the fittest

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