The study of artificial selection by Darwin helped him to establish his theory of evolution via natural selection. One of the animals Darwin examined in detail was the domestic rock pigeon. In the 1850s breeding of pigeons was an ancient past time, thus, Darwin decided to keep and breed the pigeons by himself.
While studying pigeons, Darwin established scrupulous determinations of their skeletons and wondered at the breeds' distinct colors, behaviors, and proportions. He also observed the patterns of inheritance of various features, and he demonstrated that birds of very distinct breeds can, however, generate fertile offspring. Thus, supporting the theory that they all originated from a single species.
D) smallest particle with all the properties of an element
The evolutionary history of a group of organisms especially as depicted in a family tree diagram showing the evolutionary interrelations of a group of organisms
derived from a common ancestral form. The ancestor is in the tree
“trunk”; organisms that have arisen from it are placed at the ends of
tree “branches.” The distance of one group from the other groups
indicates the degree of relationship; i.e., closely related
groups are located on branches close to one another. Phylogenetic trees,
although speculative, provide a convenient method for studying
phylogenetic relationships.
