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Biological evolution
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Inherited biological change over time
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Microevolution
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Change in genetic composition within a population within one species over time
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Macroevolution
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Evolutionary change above the level of a single species
e.g. speciation events resulting in a new clade
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck
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- one species changes slowly into another
- ‘inheritance of acquired characters’ (giraffes stretch)
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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In 1858 sent a letter to Darwin, having independently arrived at the same theory of evolution through natural selection
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