Transcript Evolutionary History Review

Which philosopher
anticipated a form of vaguely
evolutionary thinking?
Democritus
Aristotle
Plato
Archimedes
Which two medieval ideas
discouraged evolutionary
thinking?
Christian theology and spontaneous
generation
 Christian theology and astrology
 Christian theology and the feudal
system
 Spontaneous generation and the feudal
system
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The term "Lamarckism", derived
from the theory of Jean-Baptiste
Lamarck, is now used to describe
which idea?
 The Ladder of Progress
 Social Darwinism
 The human species alone did not result
from evolutionary processes
 The inheritance of acquired
characteristics
Whose work inspired both Charles
Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace
to develop the idea of natural
selection?
 The British Royal Society
 Carolus Linnaeus
 Thomas Malthus
 Immanuel Kant
What did Mendelian
genetics reveal?
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
 Particulate inheritance
 Linear inheritance
 Blending inheritance
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Why is Wallace less frequently
remembered than Charles Darwin in
discussions of evolutionary theory?
Wallace published his book after the The
Origin of Species
 Darwin developed his ideas further, and
Wallace retracted some of his ideas about the
evolution of humans
 Darwin really stole his idea from Wallace, but
no one wants to reveal that fact
 Wallace was a minority and social context of
the time marginalized him
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Which two scientists coauthored the theory of
punctuated equilibrium?
Stephen Jay Gould and Richard
Lewontin
 Niles Eldredge and Richard Lewontin
 Niles Eldredge and John Maynard
Smith
 Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge
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