Evolution and Natural Selection

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The father of evolution is

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Charles Darwin

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Body parts that have similar functions but different structures (bones, etc.)

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Analogous structure

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Body parts that have similar structure components but different functions

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Homologous structure

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Structures that seemed to once have a purpose but for evolutionary reasons no longer serve a role even though we are still born with that structure

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Vestigial structure

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Example of a vestigial structure: opposable thumb, liver, wisdom teeth, ears

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wisdom teeth

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A trait that increases an organism's chance of survival

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adaptation

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The theory that organisms who have favorable traits will be more likely to survive and reproduce, thus passing down their traits to future offspring

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natural selection

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The theory that populations change over long periods of time

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evolution

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Who believed that all simple organisms eventually evolved into more complex organisms?

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Lamarck

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Who believed that living things could develop from nonliving things?

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Lamarck