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This complete 34-page summary covers every section within the topic of evolution (including hominid evolution) and has been written according to the IEB SAGS document for Life Sciences and includes images, side notes and explanations about topics that are difficult to understand. A multitude of resources have been used to compile these notes and provide a comprehensive summary on the topic of evolution. If you are someone who struggles to visualize certain processes and concepts, these notes provide a clear picture and will enhance your understanding.

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EVOLUTION
N13 !

Definition A change in the
gene pool of population
·
: a over time .



~
slow ,
continuous process
~
long-term change of
organisms 3 division into discrete species .




continuous
genetic adaptation of
organisms populations through mutations
hybridisation
~

, ,


drift 3 natural selection
genetic .




~
Lamarchism & Darwinism




Lamarckism
·

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1801

First Scientist to that change in
suggest living organisms is the result of natural processes
·




magic)
(God ,



3 not the supernatural process of creation .




His idea : Evolution by the inheritance of acquired characteristics .
·




) useful characteristics developed by an
organism during its lifetime would be passed
to its offspring
on
.
I if something was not used ,
it would be reduced in the offspring b eventually
disappear from the
gene pool .




e
g
· . :




has been shown that aquired characteristics NOT passed on
·
It are .




feed does affect the
>
stretching to not
germ cells or
gametes .

, Darwinism
Grandfather
was Erasmus
Darwin .




·
Charles Darwin 1831-1836
·
Naturalist on HMS
Beagle < sailed to South America & Australid .




~

·
Noticed similarities of fossils with
living plants b animals .




Noticed differences between similar in different places ·
organisms
·




·
Published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection



His idea
Organisms which inherit characteristics that put them advantage
·
:
at an are most


likely to survive I reproduce ,
passing on the desired feature to their offspring.
& survival of the fittest'

I called this process Natural Selection .




& the natural environment selects suitable individuals .




each population change the
> causes to
phenotypes it contains over time .

> enables species to succeed in its environment .




·
Alfred Wallace wrote to Darwin about his theory.

Both presented together to their theory
·
a
paper announce
.
Their explanation describes a
gradual change in species with time Gradualism
·
.




Darwin's explanation :



.
1 More
offspring is produced than what is needed to

maintain a stable population .




.
2 The population remains the same / constant in number .




.
3 There is struggle for existence the environmental
a
against
resistance.

4
. There is variation within the population .




.
5 The suitable variants survive a reproduce.
.
6 The selected inherited
variation is
by the
offspring .

, the scientific
theory
theory >
-

explanation / model based on observation , experimentationb reasoning
.
·
has been tested 3 confirmed .




·
has not
yet been disproved.
·

published in scientific journals .




Religions & Scientific Conflict



Creationists members of different which believe that Earth b all living things it
religions on
=




created event
were in a
single
.




Science needs evidence to support its facts .

Faith does not need evidence ; is an act of belief .




based evidence.
Evolution belongs to science as it is on




Intelligent Design
~ alternative explanation for Darwin's theory.

~

Type of creationism based on :



Science can't explain complicated nature of the universe
·

.




·


Unexplained aspects of the universe point to existence of God .




Scales of evolution
G 2
MICROEVOLUTION MACROEVOLUTION



varieties within given type major evolutionary changes
·

over time
·
a .




Change happens within a
group origin of new
types of organisms from
· ·




descendant of the same previously existing but different ancestral
· is
type as , ,


the ancestor .


types.
Change due to mutations natural selection , e : whales descending from a land animal
g
· ·
. .

,



drift artificial selection
genetic occurs
through punctuated equilibrium or
·
.
,




gradualism .
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