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Glyptodont |
thought to be ancestor of armadillos |
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ancestral traits |
are traits shared by species with a common ancestor |
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fossils |
show that the species present on earth have changed over time |
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derived traits |
are newly evolved features such as feathers |
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dinosaur |
thought to be the ancestor of birds |
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spontaneous generation |
life arises from non life francesco redo performed a controlled experiment with flies and maggots to test this idea of origin of life |
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theory of biogenesis |
only living organisms can produce other living organisms |
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endosymbiont theory |
lynn margulis proposed this idea to explain the origin of organelles prokaryotic cells were involved in the formation of eukaryotic cells |
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primordial soup hypothesis |
energy from sunlight and lightning allowed the first organic molecules to form stanley miller and harold urey simulated early atmospheric conditions to test this idea on the origin of life |
