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beagle
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Darwin's ship
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Darwin
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naturalist |
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naturalist
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a scientist that studies nature
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trait
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a genetically determined characteristic
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selective breeding
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the human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits
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Thomas Malthus' book
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Essay on the Principle on Population
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Charles Lyell's book
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Principles of Geology
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natural selection
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the process which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution |
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