Ancient Civ: Early Humans

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Paleoanthropologist

A type of scientist that specializes in studying the development of culture and remains of early humans

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Evolution

The process that makes an organism change over generations due to natural selection

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Natural selection

A mechanism of evolution; the process through which populations of organisms adapt and change. Those with advantageous traits pass them on, but those without those traits die off

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Charles Darwin

English scientist who studied birds in the Galapagos Islands and developed the theory of evolution through natural selection

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Environmental Pressure

Factors in an environment that limit the populations of organisms

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Hominid

An early ancestor of humans