BIO 1306- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)
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Chapter 22: endless forms most beautiful, a new era of biology began in 1859 when charles darwin published the origin of. University: after graduating, he took an unpaid position as naturalist and companion to captain. Islands west of south america: he hypothesized that species from south america had colonized the gal pagos and speciated on the islands, darwin"s focus on adaptation. Inference #1: individuals whose inherited traits give them a higher probability of surviving and reproducing in a given environment tend to leave more offspring than other individuals. Individuals with certain heritable traits survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other individuals: natural selection increases the match between organisms and their environment over time. It applies to sexual and asexual species but relies on subjective criteria: the ecological species concept views a species in terms of its ecological niche.
