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Why do organisms in different places have different traits (apex)

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It is why do different regions have different organisms
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Why do different organisms live in different places

Why do different regions have different organisms

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Charles Darwin tried to answer why do different organisms live in different places.

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Charles Darwin tried to answer why do different organisms live in different places.

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Charles Darwin tried to answer why do different organisms live in different places.

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Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism - called natural selection - for how evolution takes place. Evolution is the process by which living things become adapted to their environment and new species develop. The idea of evolution was already widely discussed before Darwin but there was no widely accepted mechanism. Darwin's idea of natural selection filled this gap. Natural selection is sometimes described as the "survival of the fittest". It means that individuals which are best adapted to their environment will survive and leave more offspring than less well-adapted individuals. The offspring will inherit the useful features, so the species will gradually change and become better adapted to its environment. Over long periods of time species can change so much that they become a new species. By historical accident, Alfred Wallace came up with the same idea as Darwin at the same time. However Darwin had been developing his idea for a longer time and had collected a mass of detailed evidence to support it. He published this in his famous book 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859. Darwin did not know how inheritance works so he could not explain evolution in terms of genes. But the basic idea of natural selection has been strengthened by modern discoveries in genetics. Natural selection takes place in two steps: # For selection to happen there must be differences between individuals - otherwise it doesn't matter which individuals survive. Only differences which are caused by genes can be inherited. So the first step is the production of new genes by mutation. This is a random process.

# Competition between individuals means that those with the most 'useful' genes will leave the most offspring ie these genes will be selected and will make up a greater proportion of the next generation.

In this way natural selection explains both adaptation and speciation (origin of new species). For an excellent introduction to evolution see: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIntro.shtml

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Like many naturalists, Darwin had special interests; he was considered a world authority on barnacles and earthworms and did much original research on them. He also did a lot of research for his theory of natural selection.

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What was your theory of evolution and what did it state

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Charles Darwin tried to answer why do different organisms live in different places.

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