HMS Beagle - The ship that Darwin sailed on to get to the Galapagos islands, Charles Darwin - The author of "The origin of species" who sailed to the Galapagos islands in the 1830s, Carl Woese - An American Microbiologist born in 1928 who developed original ideas on evolution and created the 3 domains of life., Most common ancestor - This is an animal or plant which is an evolutionary link between 2 organisms. They may look something like the modern organisms but they will ultimately look and behave differently., Finch - This is the type of bird which was studied for its beak size on the Galapagos islands., Natural selection - This is the common way in which character traits are selected for through competition for resources., Extinction - This is when a species completely dies out and is likely never seen again., Speciation - This is the process of a new species evolving from a current one., Selection Pressure - This is a phenomenon where something naturally occurs and forces a particular character trait to be selected for., Fossils - One of the only things we have which tells us what animals and plants from the past may have looked like.,

Evolution and Natural Selection

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