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    could only breed with those in their same location. Peripatric speciation still carries out the same separation from a physical barrier as with allopatric, but one of the separating species is significantly smaller than the other. For example, the finches of the Galápagos carry out this form of speciation when isolated on the different islands as the population counts of the new species may vary in size as the divergence is not equal. Parapatric speciation has a wide geographic range, forcing…

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    environment over time, creating new species along the way a great way to see this clearly is Darwin’s theory on finches. Where Darwin discovered that on a group islands called the Galapagos islands there were lots of types of finches that all looked slightly different, with different shaped beaks, ,bodies, some had the ability to fly some did not. This was due to the fact that the islands were too far apart for the finches to fly to another island so all the different populations became…

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    Far East, it is said that Darwin decided to rush publishing his findings. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was constructed during a period of industrialization that was taking hold in Britain and the United States. Society during this time was looking to science to answer questions that had troubled the world for centuries. Explanations were being demanded and controversy…

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    the alterations in species. Afte r testing his hypothesis many times, he told the public his theory of evolution. Darwin discovered that there are different variations of species because organisms adapt to their environment. It is useful to look at Darwin’s background…

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    Due to the results, there is a strong belief in Darwin’s theory showing that people were getting more involved for the idea of evolution. Also number raised when people had some type of education. the higher the education they have received, the higher the percentage people believed in evolution. This…

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    Alexander Von Humboldt and Charles Darwin are two historically important scientists in the late 18th century into the 19th century and in the 19th century, respectively. Both of these scientists were pioneers in their specific fields, Humboldt with environmentalism and epistemology and Darwin with his new take on evolution. These scientists had similarities and differences in their motives, influences, and personal attributes that affected the development of their respective sciences.…

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    These assumptions were against religious principles and learning Darwin’s theory would require a long acceptance process from the public. On the other hand, what truly shocked the scientific community was the whole process of evolution entailed by “Darwinism”. They did agree with Darwin’s assumption that species evolved, but they refused to attribute the whole evolutionary process to natural and sexual selection alone. They…

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    There are two main ways of looking at the tempo of evolution and they are phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium. These two ideas are opposite, however, they are not entirely different concepts; it is like they are at two ends of a continuum. Phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium provide different ways of determining how fast changes occur. Phyletic gradualism “holds that daughter species unusually originates through a progressive series of small, gradual transformations of…

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    and is founded on even more complex theories and concepts. One of the main points for this pressing debate is the discovery of “Darwin’s Finches” and the different species on the Galapagos Islands. This theory is often confused as evidence for evolution however, the different species of finches are an example of an adaptation and not an evolution at all. These finches had their different beaks due to different adaptations they had to make to procure food in Amponsah 2 order to survive in the…

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    Though this concept of an evolutionary descent has been around since the ancient Greeks, Charles Darwin introduced a plausible mechanism for evolution known as natural selection. Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection was sparked upon his visit to the Galapagos Islands. Darwin observed unique creatures that were similar from island to island but were perfectly adapted to their environments. This observation lead him to consider the…

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