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Evolution

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Evolution Change in a species over time
Species A class of individuals having some common characteristic or quality
Fossils Remains of organisms that lived long ago and have been preserved
Catastrophism That natural disasters caused the appearance of new animals because they would move into the area after a big event
Gradualism Changes in landforms happen slowly over time
Uniformitarianism That the geological process that shaped earth are the same throughout time
Variation When individuals of a species differ due to genetic differences that can be inherited
Darwin His idea was Natural Selection which is organisms born with mutations to survive and reproduce and pass down the mutation
Cuvier His idea was called Catastrophism
Lamarck Proposed that organism's evolved towards perfection (inherited the acquired traits)
Linnaeus He developed the classification system called Binomial Nomenclature which groups organism's together by similarities that reflex evolutionary relationships
Hutton His idea was called Gradualism
Lyell His idea was called Uniformitarianism
Adaption Feature that allows an organism to better survive in its environment
Artificial Selection To breed a organism so that it can evolve and survive and also fit our needs ex. corn
Heritability Ability of a trait to be passed down to a offspring the species will change over time
Natural Selection The process in which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptions produce more offspring's
Fitness A measure of an organism's ability to survive and reproduce
Population all the individuals of a species that live in an area
Overproduction When organisms have more offspring than can survive
Biogeography The study of distribution of species and ecosystems and through geological time
Homologous Structure Body parts that are similar, but are used differently ex. a human arm to a cats arm/leg
Analogous Structure Body parts that perform a similar function, but are not similar in origin ex. bird wings to fly wings
Vestigial Structure Small, leftover body parts that had a function in early, but have no use today ex. tail bone
Paleontology Study of fossils
Buffon He believed the Earth was older than 6,000 years old and proposed that organisms shared ancestors instead of arising separately
Erasmus Darwin Proposed that all living things were descended from common ancestors and that more complex life came from less complex life
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