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1
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Alfred russel Wallace

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convinced darwin to publish

2
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Darwins first thoughts on

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Hms beagle as a naturalist

3
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central idea to darwins thoughts

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individuals within a population vary in their traits and many of these traits are heritable
- these traits will influence how an organism survives and how successful it is at reproducing

4
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Malthus

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populations cannot grow forever, eventually some resource will limit it’s growth

5
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What leads to changes in populations

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mutations, genetic drift and reproductive isolation

6
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all cell membranes

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have the same basic structure because they have the same function

7
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nearly all cells

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use and release energy in the same way

8
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darwins term for evolution

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decent with modification

9
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Science

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way of learning about the universe through a formal process of observation and experimentation called the scientific method

10
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inductive reasoning

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observe and then attempt to explain your observation in a way that applies to everything

11
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deductive reasoning

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taking pieces of evidence and making a specific claim

do a series of experiments and tie it together

12
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modern science

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combines inductive and deductive reasoning, is never right or wrong but gets closer to the truth each time

13
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Scientific method results in one of

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hypothesis, theory, law

14
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hypothesis

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explains why things happen in a small number of events

15
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theory

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we can say why some happens for a large number of events

16
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scientific law

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based on repeated observations we can say what will happen in a measurable way