1. Warm up
Humans evolved from apelike ancestors. What are some differences in traits between us and other primates?
Dogs evolved from wolves. How are dogs and wolves different?

3. Warm up
Last class we did a lab with our thumbs. What advantage did you have when you got to use your thumb?
What type of traits or adaptations do ducks have for their environment?
What adaptations do chameleons have for their environment?

4. Vocabulary
Adaptation- is any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival.
Evolution- changes within a species over an extended period of time
Theory- well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations
Broad, overarching explanations of how nature works, many sources

5. Adaptations Examples: Structural adaptations Behavioral adaptations
How do desert plants and animals survive?
Behavioral adaptations
Migration
Individual variation- certain organisms survive and reproduce better than others- environment

8. Charles Darwin- he’s kind of a BIG DEAL!
Quick research- answer the following questions:
What was Darwin’s job on the HMS Beagle?
Why were the Galapagos Islands important to Darwin?
What did Darwin notice about the finches?

9. Flapable for Charles Darwin- pg 369
Define evolution and fossil record
The Or
Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle
What happened?
Patterns of Diversity/ Natural selection
Galapagos Islands
Journey Home (What did CD observe)
The Origin of Species

10. In his book The Origin of Species, Darwin:
proposed a mechanism for evolution called natural selection.
natural selection- individuals in a population that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce
presented evidence that evolution has been taking place for millions of years—and continues in all living things.

11. Antibiotics applied to population

12. Artificial Selection
Members of each species vary from one another in important ways. Darwin noted that plant and animal breeders would breed only the largest hogs, the fastest horses, or the cows that produced the most milk. Darwin termed this process artificial selection.

13. Evolution by Natural Selection
Darwin compared processes in nature to artificial selection.
By doing so, he developed a scientific hypothesis to explain how evolution occurs.

14. Artificial selection is the selection by humans for breeding of useful traits
wolves dogs
teosinte  corn

15. “Survival of the Fittest”
The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its specific environment is fitness.
Darwin proposed that fitness is the result of adaptations.
An adaptation is any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival.

16. Because of its similarities to artificial selection, Darwin referred to the survival of the fittest as natural selection. In natural selection, the traits being selected contribute to an organism's fitness in its environment.

17. Over time, natural selection results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population. These changes increase a species' fitness in its environment.

18. Quick Lab Island 1 Island 2 Island 3
You are going to pick a “beak” and travel to different “islands”.
Each island will have a different food source. You will have 30 seconds to eat as much food as you can using ONLY your beak.
Fill in the following data table in your foldable:
Island 1
Island 2
Island 3
Food Source
# of food collected

19. Beak Lab Questions
Which island would you most likely survive? Does your data support your answer?
Explain which finch beak was most successful and least successful.
Identify any strategies you may have developed in order to become a more efficient consumer.
IN YOUR OWN WORDS, explain natural selection using the beaks of finches as examples.

20. Warm up What is evidence for evolution? List four examples?
What is comparative anatomy?
How are genetics used to support evolution?

21. Warm up- Pop Quiz
Who is this man? Hint- he wrote The Origin of Species
What journey changed his life?
Where did he go?
What did he observe?
What is evolution? Why is it important

22. Vocab Evidence of evolution Similar organisms share a common ancestor.
Fossil record
Comparative anatomy- differences and similarities between living things
Anatomy- study of the structure of organisms and their parts
Embryology- study of how animals development before birth
Molecular Biology (DNA)- scientists compare DNA between animals to see how closely they are related
Geographic Distribution

23. Fossil Record
Information about past life
Structure of organisms
What they ate
What ate them
What environment they lived in
Time period they lived in

24. Comparative Anatomy
Humerus
Ulna/radius
Carpal
Metacarpal
Phalanges

26. Anatomical Structures
Homologous structure- same anatomy, different function
Analogous structure- different anatomy, same function
Vestigial structure- remnants from a common ancestor, no longer used

27. Embryology The early stages, or embryos, of many animals with backbones are very similar.

28. Genetics

29. Geographic Evolution Similar, but unrelated species
Beaver
Geographic Evolution
Similar, but unrelated species
Different evolutionary lineage
Same type of environment
Muskrat

30. Evidence for Evolution Video