[ARCH 131] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (28 pages long)

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Hms beagle takes textbooks with him, finishes his education as a naturalist. How evolution could occur and start to develop after the 5 year voyage is up. Correlation between the fossil record and living organisms. Killing stuffing animals and collecting fossils: noticed there was a correlation between fossils and the close correlation between fossils and animals that lived there today. Some of his most important observations were made in the galapagos islands, isolated enough to undergo their own evolution processes. At the lush level, tortoises cannot lift their heads up very high. At the vegetation level, those tortoises have a big notch in their shells and they can lift their heads out very high. Natural selection: explains all of the variables we see in the natural world. 6 fundamental premises of natural selection: more offspring are produced by a species that can be supported by naturally available food sources (example, mice)