7. Tree Thinking Large-seed eater? Small-seed eater? Warbler? Leaf-browser? Large Ground Finch Small Ground Finch Warbler Finch Veg. Tree Finch Ancestral species—1 finch from the mainland Descendant species—many finch species on the islands
8. Correlation of finch species to food source Adaptive radiation Seed eaters Flower eaters Insect eaters Rapid speciation : new species filling new niches , because they inherited successful adaptations.
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11. Seeing this gradation & diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from the original gene pool of birds in this archipelago, one species has been taken & modified for different ends.
Lamarck noted how well-adapted organisms were to their environments, and believed that fossils could be understood as less perfect forms which had perished in the struggle for increasing perfection. He explained adaptation as a result of change caused by environmental pressures.
What did Darwin say? What evidence supports Evolution by Natural Selection? What impact did Evolution have on biology?
Show Campbell videos!!!
Darwin noted that the plants and animals of South America were very distinct from those of Europe. Organisms from temperate regions of South America were more similar to those from the tropics of South America than to those from temperate regions of Europe. Further, South American fossils more closely resembled modern species from that continent than those from Europe.
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