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Evolution |
The process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors |
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Species |
A group of organisms so similar to one another that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring |
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Fossil |
Traces of organisms that existed in the past |
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Catastrophism |
States that natural disasters such as floods and volcanic eruptions have happened often during Earth's long histort |
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Gradualism |
Slow changes over a long period of time |
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Uniformitarianism |
States that the geologic processes that shape Earth are uniform through time |
