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Why is there such a great diversity of living organisms on Earth?

Why is there such a great diversity of living organisms on Earth? . Religious Beliefs. Often times offer an explanation for this diversity of life Example: The Creation Story in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Theory of Evolution.

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Why is there such a great diversity of living organisms on Earth?

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  1. Why is there such a great diversity of living organisms on Earth?

  2. Religious Beliefs • Often times offer an explanation for this diversity of life • Example: The Creation Story in the Book of Genesis in the Bible

  3. Theory of Evolution • An explanation: Populations of organisms change over time.

  4. How? • Natural selection • the idea that living things reproduce more offspring than the ecosystem can support • Organisms with traits that give them a competitive advantage over others survive, reproduce, and pass their genes on to the next generation.

  5. Rose Planetarium New York city

  6. Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway

  7. Homologous Structures

  8. Comparative Embryology

  9. Fossil Evidence

  10. Fossil Evidence

  11. Fossil Evidence

  12. DNA Evidence

  13. Amino acid sequence in Hemoglobin

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