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The core of the theory of evolution, descent with modification, is wonderfully simple, for sure, but I think it is slightly disingenuous to describe its discovery as such.
Although it may seem at first glance simplistic or vague, it embodies both the patterns of evolution (descent) and its processes (modification).
Firstly, none of the definitions of evolution provided in any section of any textbook included both components of our "baseline" definition of evolution: descent with modification and common ancestry.
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Definitions of homology and homoplasy that are consistent with evolution by descent from common ancestry with modification reflect a useful description of the evolutionary process.
Science teachers can use examples and concepts from evolutionary medicine to teach the three concepts central to evolution: common descent, the processes or mechanisms of evolution, and the patterns produced by descent with modification.
The biological process of evolution descent with modification generates and structures the remarkable diversity of life on Earth today and in the geological past.
Biological evolution is descent with modification.
They explored the concept of evolution as descent with modification.
Darwin's theory of evolution (or descent with modification, as he phrased it) was revolutionary.
Desmond and Moore suggest William Darwin's flippant comment about a racial atrocity in Jamaica was the defining moment in motivating Darwin to tackle his important work on human evolution, The Descent of Man.
Only species (unique lineages or branches) and monophyletic groups are considered to be natural taxa because they exist in nature as a result of evolution, or "descent with modification".
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