Week 6 Reflection

For the week of 2/10 - 2/14 I learned about evolution. Evolution explains how modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms. Charles Darwin was an English scientist who founded the modern evolutionary theory. He studied plants and animals on a five year voyage on the HMS Beagle. His observations were on the Galápagos Islands. He found many species of plants and animals unique to the island but also seen throughout the world. Darwin's explanation for evolution was natural selection. Natural selection is the change in populations that occurs when organisms with favorable variations for an environment survive, reproduce, and pass these variations on(adaptations). Adaptations are any trait that aids the chances of survival and reproduction of an organism. Darwin's theory of evolution can be applied to explain the evolution of adaptations in organisms.