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| What was Charles Darwin's contribution to science? |
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| What pattern did Darwin observe among organisms of the Galapagos Island |
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| How did the fossils Darwin observed compare with the living organisms he studied? |
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| What did Darwin's travels reveal to him about the number and variety of living species? |
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| What is evolution? Why is evolution reffered to as a theory? |
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| How did Hutton and Lyell describe geological change? |
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| According to Lamarck,, how did species evolve? |
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| What was Malthus' theory of population growth? |
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| What are some ways the Earth has changed over time? |
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| What two ideas from geology were important in Darwin's thinking? |
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| According to Lamarck, how do species acquire traits? |
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| According to Malthus, what factors limited population growth? |
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| How did Lyell's PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY influence Darwin? |
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| How is natural variation used in artificial selection? |
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| How is natural selection related to a species' fitness? |
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| What evidence of evolution did Darwin present? |
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| What event montivated Darwin to publish his ideas? |
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| What did Darwin mean when he described certain organisms as "more fit" than others? |
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| How can two species that look very different from each other be more closely related thann two other species that look similar to each other? |
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| What are homologous structures? |
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| How is artificial selection dependant on variation in nature? |
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| The theory of evolution by natural selection explains, in scientific terms, how living things evolve over time. What is being selected in this process? |
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| What types of evidence did Darwin use to support his thoery of change over time? |
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