Natural Selection Book Report

During my first week at Baylor University, I attended Biology 1306 three times. I met new people and learned new material. We read two sections of chapter 22, concept 22.2 through 22.3. The reading begins with a detailed overview of Darwin's research on his voyage on the HMS Beagle, his initial mission being to chart the poorly known areas of the South American coastline. During the voyage, he observed and documented organisms that were well suited to their native environments. Darwin also considered geology while observing and documenting. Furthermore, Darwin reads Lyell's Principles of geology and experiences a geological change from an earthquake in Chile, he learns from Lyell that physical evidence did not support that Earth was only a

He discovers that the species at the Galapagos were not seen anywhere else. The species here were endemic. Darwin explains his view of adaptations with natural selection. Natural selection is a process in which individuals have to have certain inherited traits to survive and reproduce more efficiently than those who do not have those inherited traits. Darwin then writes a book with all his findings named "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" and publishes it the next year. His book is a massive success amongst most scientist of the time. In his book, he covers many topics that give rise to the idea of evolution. Although Darwin never used the word evolution he instead called it descent with modification. Descent with modification has lead to the wide variety of species we are able to observe today. Humans have been modifying many species through a process called artificial selection. This process is when there's an intentional reproduction of individuals with favorable

Although some species may resemble each other and yet still differ can be a result of convergent evolution, which is the independent evolution of similar traits in different ancestor trees. Analogous are features that share similar functions but not a common ancestor. More evidence of evolution comes from biogeography, which is the scientific study of geographic distributions of species. This can help us explain species that are endemic which are species that are not found anywhere else in the