Evolution in Hawaii A Supplement to 'Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science' (2004) / Chapter Skim
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The Evolution of Life on Earth Set the Stage for Evolution in Hawaii
The Evolution of Life on Earth Set the Stage for Evolution in Hawaii
Pages 10-13
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~ ...+r~F Transform plate boundariesWhere crust is neither produced nor destroyed as plates slide horizontally past each other. ~ Selected prominent hot spots Plate boundary zones Broad belts in which deformation is diffuse and boundaries are not well defined.
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In this way, living things diversified over time and took advantage of a growing number of different ecological niches. Over the billions of years of earth's history, several important evolutionary milestones have occurred: The appearance of eukaryotic cells more than a billion years ago resulted in organisms with traits not found in earlier prokaryotic cells, since the development of cellular organelles (such as a membranebound nuclear envelope)
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