Natural selection

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A characteristic that improves an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment

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adaption

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A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring

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species

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The process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise

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evolution

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the remains of physical evidence of an organism preserved by geological processes

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fossil

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A historical sequence of life indicated by fossils found in layers of the earth’s crust

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fossil record

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a genetically determine characteristic

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trait

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The human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired characteristics

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selective breeding

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The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than the less well adapted individuals do a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution

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natural selection

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The period between the birth of one generation and the birth of the next generation

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generation time

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The formation of new species as a result of evolution

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speciation

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Any method of determining that weather and event or object is older or younger than other events are objects

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relative dating

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Any method of measuring the age of an event or object in years

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absolute dating

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The standard method used to divide the Earth long natural history into manageable parts

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geologic time scale

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Describes a species that has died out completely

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extinct

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the theory that explains how large pieces of Earth are most are called tectonic plates move and change shape

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plate tectonics

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A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the latter category including humans.

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primate

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Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors).

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hominid

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the species to which all modern human beings belong. Homo sapiens is one of several species grouped into the genus Homo, but it is the only one that is not extinct. See also human evolution.

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homo sapiens