1. Charles Darwin
The Origen of Species by Means of Natural Selection - or - The Preservation of favored ‘species’ in the struggle for life
©1859

2. Natural Selection = The Strongest Survive Stronger member of a species get to breed and pass on their genetic material. The weak or slow get eaten and can not pass on their weak genetic material.

3. What is an adaptation?
With a partner, come up with a definition of adaptation and two examples of adaptations.

4. Adaptation
a trait that makes a population better suited to its environment
provides an advantage to survive and reproduce
can be structural or behavioral

5. Structural Adaptation
A physical characteristic in a plant or in an animal’s body that helps it to survive in its environment
happens over a long period of time in the form of changing an organism's genetic traits
aka physical adaptation