In today’s lesson we look at artificial selection. Artificial selection is the scientific term used to describe the breeding of plants and animals for desirable characteristics and not necessarily those that would allow the offspring to survive better. And since particular desirable characteristics are selected, it is also known as selective breeding.
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Specification and methods of reproduc...
In this lesson we will be discussing speciation and the different methods of reproductive isolation.
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Human evolution
Welcome to our first lesson on human evolution. Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioural traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period o...
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Difference between African apes and h...
In this lesson we will look at the cultural and genetic evidence to show how similar or different humans are to African apes.
