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Evolution
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Evolution is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors.
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Species
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A Species is a group of irganisms so similarto one another that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring.
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Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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Georges Buffon discussed important ideas about relationphip among organisms, scources of biological variation, and the possibility of evolution.
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Erasmus Darwin
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Darwin considered how organisms could evolve through mechanisms such a competition.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamark
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Lamark presented evolutionas occuring due to enviornmental changes over long periods of time.
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Linnaeus proposed a new system of organization for plants, animals and minerals, bacesd upon their similatrities.
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Fossils
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Fossils are traces of organisms exister in the past.
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Catastriohism
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The theory Catastriohism states that natural disasters such as floods and volcanic erutions have happened often during Earth's long history. These events have shaped landforms and caused species to become extinct in the process.
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Gradualism
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James Hutton proposed that the changes he observed in landforms resulted from slow changes over a long period of time, a priciple that became known as Gradualism.
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Unifoemitarianism
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Unifoemitarianism, this teory states that the geologic processes that shape Earth are uniform through time.
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