Darwin's theory
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- Darwin's theory
- During the 18th century, people started to accept that organisms slowly evolve into others.
- Two scientists, Charles Darwin (1890-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace.
- These two scientists came up with essentially the same idea about how this happened.
- The first book about this idea was written by Darwin and published in 1859.
- These two scientists came up with essentially the same idea about how this happened.
- Two scientists, Charles Darwin (1890-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace.
- We think about Darwin's idea as a series of stages as follows.
- Genetic Variation: the characteristics individuals vary (due to differences in genes).
- Environmental change: conditions in an area change.
- For example: the lack of a resource (such as food) causes more competition between organisms.
- Natural selection: by chance, the variations of some individuals make them better at coping with the change than others, and more likely to survive.
- Also called "survival of the fittest".
- Inheritance: the survivors breed and pass on their variations to their offspring. So the next generation contains more individuals with the 'better-adapted variations'.
- Evolution: If the environmental conditions remain changed, natural selection occurs over and over again, and a new species evolves with all the individuals having the 'better-adapted variations'
- Woolly mammoths and elephants evolved from the same animal. This means they have a common ancestor.
- In colder climate the mammoth would have evolved to have thicker hair to cope with the environment.
- Woolly mammoths and elephants evolved from the same animal. This means they have a common ancestor.
- Evolution: If the environmental conditions remain changed, natural selection occurs over and over again, and a new species evolves with all the individuals having the 'better-adapted variations'
- Inheritance: the survivors breed and pass on their variations to their offspring. So the next generation contains more individuals with the 'better-adapted variations'.
- Also called "survival of the fittest".
- Natural selection: by chance, the variations of some individuals make them better at coping with the change than others, and more likely to survive.
- For example: the lack of a resource (such as food) causes more competition between organisms.
- Environmental change: conditions in an area change.
- Genetic Variation: the characteristics individuals vary (due to differences in genes).
- During the 18th century, people started to accept that organisms slowly evolve into others.
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