Evolution - created from Mind Map

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Principles of evolution

1. organisms beget like organisms

2. the number of individuals that survive and reproduce is smaller than the number of individuals in the original population

3. in any given population, there are variations among individual organisms, and some are inheritable

4. Inherited favourable variation become more common from each generation to the next, through natural selection

5. Natural selection leads to the slow accumulation of adaptive changes that differentiate groups, speciation

Lamark

Transformation

spontaneous change, towards complexity, changing environment, inheritance of acquired characteristics

Thomas Malthus

sociology and economics

Population increase - food shortage - starvation

Setting stage for darwin

Evolution