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theory of evolution

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show naturalists  
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Alfred Russell Wallace   show
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show Although many scientists had proposed ideas that this had indeed happened, two scientists, Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin, actually formulated a theory as to how the many species could have arisen.  
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show a cat produces a cat, an oak tree produces another oak tree, and a bird produces a bird.  
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Often, organisms produce more offspring than can survive in any given   show
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show Only those organisms that survive will pass their favorable traits on to their offspring.  
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show Since Darwin’s time and the advent of genetics and molecular biology, we know that mutations cause changes in genetic traits  
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Overproduction   show
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show The individuals within the species’ population are all genetically slightly different from each other  
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Struggle to Survive   show
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Successful Reproduction   show
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I. Diversity   show
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II. Adaptation   show
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show the process by which two populations of the same species become so different that they can no longer interbreed  
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IV. Extinction   show
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biodiversity   show
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Selective breeding   show
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show the manipulation of genes that allows scientists to put genes from one organism into another organism  
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show Different groups of the same species become isolated from one another  
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Adaptation   show
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Division   show
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atmosphere   show
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Earth’s Earliest Inhabitants   show
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Fossils   show
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show A fossil of an organism that lived during a relatively short, well-defined time span  
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