Natural selection - A population of birds in an insect-rich environment come to have larger, stronger beaks., Selective breeding - A human crosses only sheep with long, heavy coats., Convergent evolution - Echidnas and hedgehogs both have spines, although they are not closely related., Divergent evolution - Cat paws, human hands and whale flippers all have metacarpal and phalange bones., Gene flow - A person with hitchhiker thumb moves to a population that do not have this allele., Genetic drift - A fire kills all of the blue-feathered birds in a population, leaving only those with brown feathers., Artificial insemination - Humans use semen from a champion bull to fertilise many different cows., Comparative embryology - A human examines embryonic fish and birds to look for similarities., Biogeography - Fossils of the Glossopteris fern are found in Australia, India and South Amercia., Molecular biology - Humans and fungi are more similar than plants and fungi, at the DNA level.,

Year 10 Biology - Evolution Examples

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