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 * || **10/14 Study Guide** available
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**9/19 Assignment: Finish "How old..." Read 15-2**
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 * || **9/17 Assignment:** Complete the Fossils online activity. ||  ||
 * || **9/12 Reading:** 14-2, 14-3, 15-1 ||  ||
 * || ** 9/10 Assignment: ** Complete the [|Tour Through Time] ||  ||
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__Essential Questions__
 * 1) What are the key time-divisions, and evolutionary events in earth’s history?
 * 2) How does the fossil record give us clues to earth’s evolutionary history?
 * 3) Who was Charles Darwin and how did the social context in the 1800’s influence his work?
 * 4) How has natural selection affected our view of the natural world and our place in it?
 * 5) How has our understanding of natural selection “evolved” since Darwin’s time?
 * 6) What are the key components of natural selection theory?
 * 7) What evolutionary patterns emerge as the result of natural selection?
 * 8) How can natural selection result in new species?
 * 9) When and where did the human species arise?
 * 10) Who are the key hominoid ancestors and what is know (and unknown) about them and the patterns of human evolution?

Required Readings from Modern Biology (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2002)
§ Chapter 14: Section 14-2, 14-3 § Chapter 15: Sections 15-1, 15-2, 15-3 § Chapter 16: Section 16-2, 16-3 § Chapter 17: Sections 17-1, 17-2, 17-3

Terms You Need to Know and Need to be able to Explain **
 * // radioactive dating // || // acquired trait // || // sexual selection // ||
 * // half life // || // Darwin // || // mutation // ||
 * // organic // || // natural selection // || // immigration // ||
 * // fossil // || // descent with modification // || // emigration // ||
 * // sediment // || // survival of the fittest // || // gene flow // ||
 * // cast // || // fitness // || // genetic drift // ||
 * // law of superposition // || // adaptation // || // primate // ||
 * // variation // || // homologous vs. analogous // || // bipedal // ||
 * // biogeography // || // puntuated equilibrium vs. gradualism // || // quadrapedal // ||
 * // convergent vs. divergent // || // coevolution // || // stabilizing, directional, disruptive selection // ||
 * // mass extinction // || era, period, epoch ||  ||