Natural Selection And Evolution

What is Evolution?

Who was Charles Darwin?

• A Sussy Baka

• A Geologist

• A Biologist

• A Zoologist

What is Natural Selection?

What are Derived Traits

• Newly evolved traits such as feathers, that do not  appear in fossils of common ancestors. 

•  Primitive features such as teeth and tails that do appear in ancestral forms.

What are Ancetreal Traits

• Newly evolved traits such as feathers, that do not  appear in fossils of common ancestors. 

•  Primitive features such as teeth and tails that do appear in ancestral forms.

Homologuous Structures

• Anatomically similar structures inherited from a common ancestor.

• Structures that are the reduced forms of functional structures in other organisms

Vestigial Structures

• Anatomically similar structures inherited from a common ancestor.

• Structures that are the reduced forms of functional structures in other organisms

What is Fitness

• A measure of the relative contribution that an individual trait makes to the next generation.

• Morphological adaptations that allow them to blend in. 

• The distribution of plants and animals around the world

What is BioGeography

• The distribution of plants and animals around the world

•  A measure of the relative contribution that an individual trait makes to the next generation.

• Morphological adaptations that allow them to blend in. 

What is Camoflauge

• Morphological adaptations that allow them to blend in. 

• A measure of the relative contribution that an individual trait makes to the next generation.

• The distribution of plants and animals around the world