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5 own atural selection explains how occurs What is a group of individuals which live together in the same area at the same time called? 0 omparing the vertebrate hearts, the heart is most closely related to the heart of birds and mammals because it has the beginnings of a divided chamber. 2 he opposable thumb allows humans to grapsp objects firmly. his feature is called an because it has helped human to survive over time. 3 Fossils of whale ancestors show that present-day whales are distant cousins to a land-dwelling mammal called esonychid. hese fossils provide evidence that organisms have over time. atural selection explains why some species become. lthough dinosaurs lived for over 0 million years, they may have become extinct because a catastrophic event changed the environment more rapidly than the dinosaurs could.

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