Who Discovered Natural Selection?

Who Discovered Natural Selection? book cover — Who Discovered Natural Selection Anna Claybourne

Who Discovered Natural Selection? — page 1 — What is natural selection An important question Why do the animals plants and people on our planet look and act the way they do And why are there so many different types or species of living things These are among the most important questions in science especially biology the science of life For most scientists the answer is natural selection Discovering the world The theory of natural selection developed in the 1800s This was a time when scientists and explorers were ﬁnding out more and more about the natural world and its plants animals and other creatures such as fungi and bacteria From fossils they also learned about the creatures that lived on the earth a long time ago They wondered why some of these such as dinosaurs were so different from modern life-forms Had living things been changing or evolving all this time And if they had how Finding an answer Several scientists came up with interesting ideas but the most famous of them all was Charles Darwin and the This artwork shows the giant Megalodon shark the biggest ﬁsh ever The shark lived between 25 and 1 6 million years ago and fossils show it was 66 feet 20 m long A modern white shark also shown measures around 20 feet 6 m

Who Discovered Natural Selection?

Who Discovered Natural Selection?

This series looks at some of the major inventions and discoveries that have helped to shape our world today.

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By: Anna Claybourne

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Published by: Arcturus Publishing provided by Britannica

9-12Age Range

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42Pages

ScienceSubject

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30-45 minsReading Time

-Guided Reading

-Fountas & Pinnell

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