Question:

Missing link in evolution is

Updated On: Jul 28, 2022

Peripatus
Limulus
Pheretima
Archaeopteryx

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Archaeopteryx lithographica is widely accepted as the earliest and most primitive known bird. The discovery of the first intact specimen in 1861, two years after Charles Darwin published. Archaeopteryx was a prehistoric reptile with limbs which resembled the wings of today?? birds. It is considered a primary link in the evolutionary process between the ancient reptiles o f millions of years ago and birds as we know them now.

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Evolution and Natural Selection

Charles Darwin - was a British naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection. Darwin derived evolution as "descent with modification," the idea that species change gradually, give rise to new species and share a common ancestor. Darwin had proposed natural selection - the mechanism for evolution. Because resources are short in nature, organisms with heritable traits that favor survival and reproduction will lean to leave more offspring than their peers, causing the traits to rise in frequency over generations. The consequence of natural selection on populations is to become adapted, or increasingly well-suited, to their environments steadily. Natural selection entirely depends on the environment and needs existing heritable variation in a group.

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