...that adaptations enable living organisms to cope with environmental stresses and pressures?
...that maintained gene flow between two populations can also lead to a combination of the two gene pools, reducing the genetic variation between the two groups?
...that all forms of natural speciation have taken place over the course of evolution, though it still remains a subject of debate as to the relative importance of each mechanism in driving biodiversity?
...that despite the relative rarity of suitable conditions for fossilization, approximately 250,000 fossil species are known?
...that genetic sequence evidence thus allows inference and quantification of genetic relatedness between humans and other apes?