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Ideas on the origin and transmutation of species across time. The advent of the evolutionary thought (common descent and transmutation of species).
Signs of evolution: adaptive radiation, adaptive convergence, fossil series, geographical distribution of fossils, biochemical similarities.
Lamarck's mechanism of evolutionary change.
Darwin and Wallace's mechanism of evolutionary change: evolution by natural selection driven by the environment.
Genetics and evolution: mutation, recombination, natural selection of alleles and genetic drift.
Evolution by natural selection in action: some examples.
Main outcomes of the evolution by natural selection: adaptation, extinction, coevolution and speciation.

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