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    This document summarizes theories of evolution, including those proposed by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Lamarck believed that organisms evolve in response to their environment through inheritance of acquired characteristics, while Darwin's theory of natural selection posited that traits which aid survival are more likely to be passed on to offspring. The document also outlines patterns of evolution such as natural selection, speciation, coevolution, convergent evolution, and adaptive radiation.

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    This document summarizes theories of evolution, including those proposed by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Lamarck believed that organisms evolve in response to their environment through inheritance of acquired characteristics, while Darwin's theory of natural selection posited that traits which aid survival are more likely to be passed on to offspring. The document also outlines patterns of evolution such as natural selection, speciation, coevolution, convergent evolution, and adaptive radiation.

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    LESSON 6: Theories of Evolution

    We can:
    ✓ explain the occurrence of evolution

    Questions/Main Ideas Answers/Notes

    1. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck ➢ A French naturalist was the first evolutionist who believed that organisms change
    over time. He proposed that organism evolve in response to their environment.
    The word “evolve” means to change gradually. He was able to develop three
    theories which includes Theory of Need, Theory of Use and Disuse and
    Theory of Acquired Characteristics.

    A. Theory of Need ➢ states that organisms change in response to the changes in their environment.
    They were able to develop characteristics necessary for them to adapt in their
    modified environment that leads to size increase of body parts or function
    changes.

    B. Theory of Use and Disuse ➢ shows that organs that are not used will disappear while those that are constantly
    used will be developed. Lamarck believed that short-necked giraffes strained
    their necks to reach food from trees causing their necks to become longer.

    C. Theory of Acquired ➢ The acquired long necks of these giraffes were passed on to their offspring
    Characteristics

    2. Charles Darwin ➢ The Theory of Evolution of Charles Darwin, in his book On the Origins of Species
    by Means of Natural Selection, published in 1859, is based on natural selection
    which is different from the theories of Lamarck. According to Darwin, originally,
    giraffes had varying neck lengths. Natural selection favored the survival of long-
    necked giraffes because it allows them to reach for food on tall trees while short
    necked giraffes were eliminated because of their inability to reach higher
    vegetation when there is scarcity of low vegetation such as grasses. This
    eliminated them from the population of giraffes.

    PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION ➢ Natural selection wherein nature selects organisms that will or will not survive
    based on their existing traits. Organisms with favorable traits or those who are
    best suited in the environment have a better chance of survival. The survivors will
    pass on their favorable traits to their offspring. As the years pass by, the
    population will produce an organism with traits different from their ancestors.

    ➢ Speciation is a process within evolution that results in the formation of new, and
    distinct species that are reproductively isolated from other population when there
    is no gene flow.

    ➢ Coevolution is the process wherein a species adapts or evolve in tandem with


    another species as they interact with each other. Example is the prey-predator
    relationship of a bat and a moth. When the moth evolves due to environmental
    pressures, the bat will also evolve because it has a dependent relationship with
    the moth as the moth’s predator.

    ➢ Convergent Evolution is the evolution of morphological similarities in organism


    that are not closely related because they have similarities in their habitats. An
    example of this is a marsupial mouse that looks like a placental mouse.

    ➢ Adaptive Radiation is the process by which the species diversifies rapidly into
    different types of closely related species with, each type occupying a new
    environment. An example of this type of evolution is that of Darwin’s finches in
    Galapagos Island.

    Summary of the Lesson? (Write what you have learned/your realizations here)
    I learned that...
    Prepared by:

    Emmanuel A. Mamaril, LPT


    Teacher I, Science Department

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