Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

August 2013 Chapter 22 Descent with Modification A Darwinian View of Life Darwin introduces a new theory Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection on November 24, 1859 It focused on the diversity of organisms Their origins and relationships Their similarities and differences Their geographic distribution Adaptation to surrounding environments Presented evidence that many species from earth are descendants of ancestral species that were different from the modern species Proposed a mechanism for this process, which name is Natural Selection Natural Selection is that a population can change over generations, leaving heritable traits to their breeds, this population can get a lot of changes that can eventually form to a new specie