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What is natural selection?
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Natural selection is the idea that population can change over generations if individuals that possess certain heritable traits leave more offspring than other individuals.
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What is evolutionary adaptation?
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Evolutionary adaptation is an accumulation of inherited characteristics that enhance organisms' ability to survive and reproduce in specific environments.
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How can evolution be defined?
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A change over time in the genetic composition of a population.
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What were Darwin's two major points in his 1859 book, On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection?
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1. Evidence that many species are descendent of ancestral species which were quite different.
2. Natural Slection |
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Did Linnaeus' observations support evolutionary kinship?
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Not until later. Linnaeus originally believed that his system of taxonomy rather showed a pattern of creation.
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