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3 Reasons for extinction

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  1. Change in environment
  2. Disease
  3. Heredity failures
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5 steps of natural selection

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  1. Organisms have an over abundance of young
  2. Over abundance of young shows variation
  3. Variation leads to competition
  4. Competition> winner & loser
  5. Winner> mate> more offspring> fitter
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4 errors that represent geological time

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  1. Precambrian
  2. Paleozoic
  3. Mesozoic
  4. Cenozoic
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5 methods of fossil preservation

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  1. Unaltered preservation
  2. Replacement by minerals
  3. Molds&casts
  4. Carbon film imprint
  5. Preservation from decay
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Charles Darwin

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English 1830-1859 > sailed on Beagle in 1859
• origin of species
• finches
• Galápagos Islands

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