AP Biology/Natural Selection

Introduces Darwin’s theory, the concept of natural selection, and evolution.

Objectives and Skills
Topics may include:
 * Evidential support for evolution and common ancestry
 * The mechanisms of natural selection and speciation
 * Environmental and human-caused factors in evolution
 * Charting species ancestry through phylogenetic trees and cladograms
 * Extinction
 * Models of the origin of life on Earth