Evolution
By: Matthew Campbell
Vocabulary
• Natural selection- the process whereby organism
better to the environment tending to survive and
produce more offspring
• Common ancestor-ancestor that two different
different species share
• Homologous structures- same structures
• A species is a population of
organisms that interbreeds
and has
Summary
of Darwin's
fertile offspring.
Theory of Evolution
• Living organisms have descended
with modifications from species that
lived before them.
• Natural selection explains how this
evolution has happened
Summaryfor
of Darwin's
resources.
Theory
of Evolution
Extended
—
Individuals
within a
population
Questions
• Why does evolution exist at all?
• What are the differences between genetic and
cultural evolution, and how can these
differences be formalized?
• What is the source of novelty in evolution?
• Which phenotypic modifications can evolve?
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