| Chemical evolution | Living organisms evolved from nonliving chemicals |
| Coelacanths | Fish once thought became extinct about 70 million years ago |
| Comparative Anatomy | Science that deals with the structure of animals |
| Continental drift | Idea that continents had drifted apart first suggested by creationist Antonio Snider |
| Dinosaur-to-bird theory | Many evolutionists claim that some dinosaurs evolved into birds, and thus they are not extinct but are flying around us even today. |
| DNA | Molecule of heredity that is passed from parents to child |
| Ectothermic animal | Can adjust its body temperature behaviorally (moving between shade and sun), even achieving higher temperature than warm-blooded animal |
| Edward Blyth | Published several articles describing natural selection in Magazine of Natural History 22 years before Darwin published his book |
| Evolution | Theory that all life forms are descended from one or several common ancestors that were present on early earth, three to four billion years ago |
| Evolution is directional | All the life-forms on earth today were produced from one or several ancestral life-forms billions of years ago |
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