The cells of the adrenal cortex contain large amounts of smooth endoplasmic reticulum, which is involved in the steroid-forming process.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Postulate of Darwin

Geometric increase 

Limited food & Space

Struggle for existence 

Variation 

 Natural selection

Inheritance of useful characters

Speciation

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory - Common descent

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Gradualism is Darwin’s proposition that the differences between even radically different organisms have evolved by small steps through intermediate forms, not by leaps

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Natural selection was Darwin’s brilliant hypothesis, that accounts for adaptations, features that appear “designed” to fit organisms to their environment.

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Alfred Russel Wallace - Who was collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, had independently conceived of natural selection

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Populational change is Darwin’s hypothesis that evolution occurs by changes in the proportions (frequencies) of different variant kinds of individuals within a population.