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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles Darwin | first to figure out how evolution works and published a book called The Origin of Species. |
| Wallace | published a book called "The Malay Archipelago" |
| Lyell | published a book called "Principles of Geology." |
| What evidence for evolution came before Darwin? | Fossils |
| H.M.S Beagle | the ship Darwin sailed on |
| Galapagos Islands | islands where evidence for evolution is most prominent. Primary labratory for studying evolution. Evidence for Darwin's theory of natural selection. The environment and it's species adapt through adaptive radiation. |
| Natural Selection | Determines wether a species will have a greater chance of curvival than any other species. |
| homologous structures | Same origin, different functions |
| analogous structures | different origins. same function |
| The two parts of evolution | percent survival and number of offspring. |
| Adaptive Radiation | rapid evolutionary diversification of an ancestral species into a variety of species. |