EvolutionandDarwin.pptVIP

EvolutionandDarwin Evolution The processes that have transformed life on earth from it’s earliest forms to the vast diversity that characterizes it today. A change in the genes!!!!!!!! Old Theories of Evolution Jean Baptiste Lamarck (early 1800’s) proposed: “The inheritance of acquired characteristics” He proposed that by using or not using its body parts, an individual tends to develop certain characteristics, which it passes on to its offspring. “The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics” Example: A giraffe acquired its long neck because its ancestor stretched higher and higher into