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Evolution. Evolution- changes that have transformed life over time. Biological Diversity= variety of living things How did different organisms arise? How are they related? . Charles Darwin- (1831) naturalist HMS Beagle Galapagos islands- studied finches
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Evolution • Evolution- changes that have transformed life over time
Biological Diversity= variety of living things • How did different organisms arise? • How are they related?
Charles Darwin- (1831) • naturalist • HMS Beagle • Galapagos islands- studied finches • Book: (1858) The Origin of Species
Patterns of Diversity • Organisms well suited to environment • Why were dif animals in similar environments at dif parts of the world?
Living Organisms and Fossils • Fossils-preserved remains of ancient animals • Some fossils had similarities of living org. • How were these fossil species related to living organisms?
Galapagos Islands • Dif Climates • Tortoise’s differed on each island in predictable ways • Birds differed on islands
Scientists • Buffon- (1700) earth older than 1,000 years • Fossils and living organisms similar but not exactly the same • Lamarck- (1800)proposed life evolves or changes • Evolution was a process of adaptation • by use or disuse organisms lost /acquired traits • Traits were passed on
Hutton/Lyell(1830)- geological change • Earth changed over time • erosion • shift in plate
Malthus-(1798) Principle of Populations • More offspring are produced than can survive • Wallace- (1858) mechanism of evolutionary change
On the Origin of Species 1. Variation among species • Artificial selection- nature provided variation and humans selected those variations to be more useful.
2. Struggle for existence- more offspring produced than can survive • Those more suited for the env. Survived and passed on traits
3. Survival of the Fittest- Natural Selection • Fitness- ability of an organism to survive and reproduce • Adaptation- inherited characteristic that increases an organisms chance of survival/reproduce
4. Natural Selection- mechanism of evolution • Traits are selected by nature • Traits passed on to offspring, trait increases over time • Over time population changes Over time natural selection results in changes in inherited characteristics of a population
5. Descent with Modification- each living species has descended with changes from other species over time • Change- change in environment
Changes in different environments • Ex: Rabbits
Evolution Evidence 1. Fossil Record- document intermediate stages of life
2. Geographic Distribution of Living Species- • Many environments similar= same pressures of natural selection= different animals evolved common features
3. Homologous Body Structure- structures that evolved from a single structure in a common ancestor. Vestigial organs-Organs reduced in size only traces left
4. Similarities in embryology- embryos similar at various stages of development
Natural Selection • Trait must be inherited • Variation- difference among members of the same species • More offspring produced than can survive • Evolution occurs over time, populations evolve not individuals