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Evolution: the idea that living things are related like a huge family and that the many kinds of creatures around today differ from each other because they inherited different changes over many generations from their ancestors

Natural Selection: a natural process in which creatures best suited to surviving in a place pass along their useful traits to their young. The losers don’t have as many young and eventually the useful traits crowd out the losers’ traits.

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