Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in the tiny merchant town of Shrewsbury, England and died on April 19, 1882. His studies of specimens around the globe led him to formulate his theory of evolution and his views on the process of natural selection.
Natural Selection is the process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. …show more content…
Fossil evidence is when animal or plant remains which have been buried and covered for million years have been discovered and show a story about the past. DNA evidence is when the DNA is similar to other organisms showing that they shared a common ancestor. Homologous Structures are body parts that have the same basic structure and the same relationship to other body parts. Embryonic is when the embryos look similar signaling they share a common ancestor. Vestigial Structures is a body part in a present-day organism that no longer serves a purpose, but was probably useful to an ancestor. Types of Evolution are factors such as environment and predation pressures where organisms can have different effects on the ways in which the organism needs evolve in order to survive. Divergent Evolution is the evolutionary pattern in which two species gradually become increasingly different. Adaptive Radiation is a type of evolution where an animal or plant group into a wide variety of types adapted to specialized modes of life. Convergent Evolution takes place when species of different ancestry begin to share similar traits because of a shared habitat. Coevolution is used to describe cases where two, or more, species seem to affect each other's