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I. Students need to understand the process of natural selection, including important concepts such as reproductive population, variability, and environment, habitat, and niche. |
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II. Students should be able to distinguish between natural selection, kin selection, and sexual selection, - and understand the mechanisms by which all three operate. |
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III. Students should be able to describe the ways in which macroevolution may occur, including the roles of competition, preadaptation, adaptive radiation, extinction, and generalized versus specialized traits and species. |
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IV. Students should understand the differences between phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium. |