The scientific study of the interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment. The study of the evolutionary processes that give rise to variation found among life on Earth. Charles Darwin’s greatest discovery. The only explanation for how Anolis legs changed after hurricanes ripped through their small island homes.
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