Natural Selection and Evolution - Part 3 (Week 9)

Question 1

What happened on the voyage of the beagle?

Answer 1

• observation of fossils resembling living species from the same region
• living species resembled other species from nearby regions

Question 2

What is natural selection?

Answer 2

• process in which individuals with favourable inherited traits = more likely to survive + reproduce

Question 3

In what year was the Origin of Species published?

Answer 3

1859