Rod cells sense light with the aid of a light-sensitive GPCR called rhodopsin.

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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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Darwin’s evolutionary theory - Evolution as such is the simple proposition that the characteristics of organisms change over time. 

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

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