The term often leads into confusion, however, since international compact cars are somewhat larger than their North American equivalents, mostly because no supermini/subcompact size is manufactured by American, Mexican and Canadian car makers up to date.
By the late 1860's, Darwin came to describe this process as the survival of the fittest. This is very different from Lamarck's incorrect idea that the environment altered the shape of individuals and that these acquired changes were then inherited.
10. Explain what Darwin meant by the principle of common descent and descent with modification. 11. Explain what evidence convinced Darwin that species change over time. 12. State, in their own words, three inferences Darwin made from his observations, which led him to propose natural selection as mechanism for evolutionary change. 13.