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Common descent with modification
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The Process by which species of living things undergo modification in successive generations, with such modification sometimes resulting in the formation of new, separate species
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Homologous
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In anatomy, having the same structure owing to inheritance from a common ancestor. Forelimb structures in whales, bats, cats, and gorillas are homologous
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Modern Synthesis
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The unified evolutionary theory that resulted from convergence of several lines of biology research between 1937 and 1950
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Morphology
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the physical form of an organism
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Natural Selection
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The process though which traits that confer a reproductive advantage to individual organisms grow more common in populations of organisms over successive generations
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Radiometric Dating
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A technique for determining the age of objects by measuring the decay of the radioactive elements within them. The age of fossils can be determined with this technique.
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Vestigial character
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A structure in an organism whose original function has been lost during the course of evolution
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