Evolution

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Evolution

• Who came up with it anyway?

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Father of Evolution

• Charles Darwin
• Born in 1809
• Sailed on HMS Beagle in 1831
• Studied plants animals on Galapagos Islands

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What did Darwin Study?

• Organisms on Galapagos Islands
• Living fossils
• Similarities Differences
• Iguanas
• Tortoises
• Birds (finches)

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Darwins Finches
Example of Adaptive Radiation
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Natural Selection

• Survival of the Fittest
• The strong survive
• Adaptation inherited characteristics increases
  the fitness of a species
• Ex lots of rain small seeds birds with beaks
  adapted for small seeds would be strong and
  more numerous next year