| A | B |
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| Natural Selection | process by wich populations change in response to their environment |
| evolution | change in the genetic makeup of a population or species |
| population | the number of the same species in a given area |
| species | organism that can produce fertile offspring |
| micro-evolution | change within a species |
| macro-evolution | change among a species |
| Lamark | man who thought up the Theory of Use and Disuse |
| Malthus | economist that thought that the human population was growing faster that it's food source |
| Lyell | geologist that thought that over a long period of time, simple processes can cause the formations on the earth today |
| Darwin | thought of Natural Selection |
| adaptation | changing of a species that results in its being better suited to its environment |
| isolation | condition in which populations of the same species become different overtime to the point where no more inter-breeding can be done |
| extiction | caused by climatic changes and natural extictions |
| gradualism | evolutionary theory that states that small changes over a long period of time |
| Punctuated Equilibrium | long periods of stability divided by sudden changes |
