EVOLUTION
MODERN THEORY OF EVOLUTION
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drastically altered their environments.
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produced offspring that had identical inheritable characteristics.
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did not fight to survive.
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had certain inherited traits that allowed them to survive.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Scientists aren’t sure exactly why woolly mammoths went extinct: Some think that humans hunted too many of them, and others believe that they couldn’t survive Earth’s naturally warming climate. Or, it could’ve been a combination of both.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most mammoths went extinct more than 10, 000 years ago, coinciding with an important climate change at the end of the last ice age. Only small and isolated populations survived on islands such as the Channel Islands of California or Russia’s Wrangel Island until much more recently.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Humans did not cause woolly mammoths to go extinct–climate change did: New DNA research shows the world got too wet for the giant animals to survive.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 October 2021.
Detailed explanation-4: -Woolly mammoths evolved a suite of morphological adaptations to life in the extreme cold, including small ears and tails, a long thick coat, and, unlike other elephants, numerous large sebaceous glands, which are thought to have helped repel water and improve insulation (Repin et al., 2004).