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Which of the following is a contribution of Linnaeus to evolutionary thinking? - Species can be grouped by similarity and organized in a hierarchical way Who is originally responsible for the ideas that lineages change through time? - Lamarck Which of the following best describes the geologic process known as uniformitarianism? - The gradual erosion of mountains by water Thomas Malthus was known for arguing that... - The rate of population growth exceeds the rates of increases in food, as he described in the Principal of Population On his travels on the HMS Beagle, Darwin observed that - organisms in one part of the world has similar counterparts in other parts some organisms are endemic to certain locations, like islands organisms on the Galapagos Islands were similar to those on the mainland of South America Recall the difference between absolute and relative fitness. If an organism in a population had 3 offspring, and if the fittest individual in the population had 5 offspring, the relative fitness of this organisms would be: - 3/5 = 0.6 one postulate of natural selection is that parents pass to their offspring changes in a trait that are acquired during their lifetime - False which of the following is an accurate statement about natural selection - selection acts on phenotypes but can change allele frequencies