L4 Flashcards
(7 cards)
It is the change in the
inherited characteristics
of biological
populations over
successive generations.
EVOLUTION
He was the first
scientist to formulate
a scientific argument
for the theory of
evolution by means
of natural selection.
Charles Darwin
It is a processes that
give rise to diversity at
every level of biological
organization
Evolution
What are the 3 facts
about populations:
more offspring are
produced than can
possibly survive
traits vary among
individuals, leading to
different rates of survival
and reproduction, and
trait differences are
heritable.
they are the one who proposed that one type of animal could
descend from an animal of another type during the preSocratic Period
Anaximander and Empedocles
He understood all natural things, not only living things, as being
imperfect actualizations of different fixed natural possibilities,
known as “forms”, “ideas”, or (in Latin) “species”
Aristotle (Medieval)
