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Mechanisms of Population Change

Alfred Wallace

George Buffon

Geometric Increase

Artificial Selection

Selective Pressure

The breeding of plants and animals to produce desirable traits. (Man-made, selected by man)

Natural Balance

Selective Advantage

Natural Selection

The characteristic of an organism that enables it to survive and reproduce better than other organisms in a population in a given environment.

George Cuvier

Geographic

Barriers

Theory

Charles Darwin

Variation

-Went to the Galapagos when he was 22 years old

-Found seashells on the top of the Andes mountain range

-Found the mockingbirds

-Said that "man is clearly an animal"

-Idea of transmutation

-Idea of natural selection

-Studied the passing on of instincts through generations

-Published the Barnacle Book and recieved The Royal Medal for it

-Published theory anonymously and it was poorly recieved by the public

-Had a degree in theology

Struggle For Survival

A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena. Most theories that are accepted by scientists have been repeatedly tested by experiments and can be used to make predictions.

Biological

Barriers

Theory Of Acquired Characteristics

Descent With Modification

Neurology

Mutation

Survival Of The Fittest

Biochemistry/Genetics

Physiology

Biological Species

Transitional Fossils

Homologous

Structure

Fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group.

Evidence

Jean-Baptiste Lamark

Analogous Structure

Charles Lyell

Fossil Records

Adaptation

Divergence

Biogeography

Theory Of Need

Embryology

Transformation

Convergence

The science dealing with the formation, development, structure, and functional activities of embryos.

Theory of Use/ Disuse

Gradualism

Burgess Shales

Vestigal Structure

Coevolution

Punctuated

Equilibrium

Speciation

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