Erosion occurs when natural forces alter a landscape. what does it mean to alter a landscape?

Anne, an intern in a microbiology lab, was observing the characteristics of various specimens of protists. match each specimen to the category of protist to which it belongs.

The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the correspondingbones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. however, genetic data suggest that all three kindsof organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. which of the following is the mostlikely explanation for these data? a) humans and bats evolved by natural selection, and whales evolved by lamarckian mechanisms.b) forelimb evolution was adaptive in people and bats, but not in whales.c) natural selection in an aquatic environment resulted in significant changes to whale forelimb anatomy.d) genes mutate faster in whales than in humans or bats.e) whales are not properly classified as mammals.

In 1859, the english naturalist charles darwin published a book entitled on the origin of the species. one of the major ideas that was presented in his book was the theory of natural selection. what was another idea that was presented in his book?