1) Variation: there needs to be a difference in the individuals within a population
2) Inheritance: These variable traits must be able to be passed down genetically
3) Growth rate: There needs to be a growth rate that requires a struggle for resources
4) Survival rate: There needs to be a difference in survival rate for the different variation types... certain variations will live
The geological time scale (gts) is a system of chronological measurements that relates stratigraphy to time and is used by geologist, paleontologists, and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred throughout earth's history
( stratigraphy is the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata * a series of layers of rock in the ground * and there relation ship to the geological time scale)
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so they can find out what type of fossil it was
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