MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter Sourcebook: Most Recent Common Ancestor, Georges Cuvier, Carl Linnaeus
25 Oct 2016
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Essays aim to provide overview of data and arguments: each essay is a standalone topic of its own. Genealogical relating to study of tracing lines of family descent. Species name not capitalized ie. sapien. Sourcebook evolution essay 3 (evolution of early evolutionary theory) notes: Essay will explore how understanding of evolution itself evolved. Evolution refers to both natural process and the understanding of that process: simply put, species change over time, and under the right conditions can change into new species. Earliest human ancestors evolved from an ancestral species called lca (last common ancestor) Humans and apes share a common ancestor; they did no evolve from each other. Watching evolution: scientists debate how processes of evolution operate (why they say evolution is a theory) Da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s observations are culminated from thousands of years of speculation as to why so much variation exists within species.
