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Artificial selection

Populations could be modified by selecting parents

Convergent evolution

Distantly related Organisms sharing similar structural features due to similar selective pressures

Selective pressures

Different conditions that can lead too certain adaptations being favored in populations

Fitness

Capacity of an orgiamsm to survive and reproduce

Genetic correlation

A trait may not be beneficial but is still inherited

Fitness trade off

A trait that is detrimental to one may be advantageous to another

Thomas Malthus

Proposed concept that population growth is restricted due to limited resources

Natural selection

Organisms with traits better suited to their environments are more likely to survive and reproduce

Darwin and Wallace

On their 5 year voyage they came to the conclusion that evolution occurred through natural selection