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What is evolution and how does it work? Evolution 101 provides the nuts-and-bolts on the patterns and mechanisms of evolution. You can explore the following sections:

• An introduction to evolution - Evolution briefly defined and explained
• The history of life: looking at the patterns How does evolution lead to the tree of life?
• Mechanisms: the processes of evolution How does evolution work?
• Microevolution - How does evolution work on a small scale?
• Speciation - What are species anyway, and how do new ones evolve?
• Macroevolution - How does evolution work on a grand scale?  The big issues - What are some of the big questions that evolutionary biologists are trying to answer?

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