Essential Questions:
How do people reconstruct and date events in Earth’s planetary history?
How are the characteristics of one generation related to the previous generation?
Why do individuals of the same species vary in how they look, function, and behave?
What evidence shows that different species are related?
How does genetic variation among organisms affect survival and reproduction?
How does the environment influence populations of organisms over multiple generations?
Unit Vocabulary:
adaptive trait
ancestor
body structure
common ancestor population
descendant species
diagnose
environment
evolution
evolutionary time
extinct
fossil
generation
trait
histogram
inherit
limb
mutation
natural selection
organisms
paleontologist
population
related
speciation
species
stability