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Progression Of Evolution

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Over the history of life on earth, the attributes of organisms have changed and diversified intensely through the progression of evolution. The structures and functions of organisms are products of evolutionary change in populations in response to their particular environments. For example, many plants in hot dry climates have small leaves with waxy surfaces to reduce water loss by evaporation. Such characteristics of structure and function that suit an organism to the conditions of its environment are called adaptations. This close correspondence of entities to their environments derives from a process unique to biological organisms: natural selection. Natural selection is individual variation within a species in the form of mutation and recombination
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