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14.1
Darwin proposed natural selection as the mechanism of evolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Georges Buffon Ideas | 1700's, he suggested that Earth might be much older than a few thousand years, also observed that specific fossils and certain living animals were similar but not exactly alike |
| Adaptation | improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment |
| Jean Baptiste Lamarck (and inheritance of acquired characteristics) | posed that life evolves, changes.explain the process as adaptation. inheritance of acquired characteristics is the idea that these enhanced characteristics would be passed on to the offspring |
| Darwin's observations abroad the HMS Beagle | noticed that the plants and animals throughout the continent all had a definite South America character |
| Charles Lyell ideas | proposed that gradual and observable geologic processes such as erosion could explain the physical features of today's Earth |
| Thomas Malthus ideas | contented that much of human suffering, such as diseases, famine, and homelessness, was due to the human population's potential to grow |
| descent with modification | descendants of the earliest organisms spread into various habitats over millions of years, in these habitats they accumulated different modifications, or adaptations, to diverse ways to life |
| natural selection | process by which individuals with inherited characteristics well-suited to the environment leave more offspring on average than do other individuals |
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