Exam 2: Early Evolutionary Ideas and Darwin S Insight

Why was it such a brilliant strategy for Charles Darwin to open On the Origin of Species with a discussion of artificial selection?

Identify the five major developments that led to the development of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Explain why the linear hierarchy of Aristotle's scala naturae is incompatible with Darwin's phylogenetic view of biological diversity.

A local horticulturalist works with her city to design and plant flower gardens in a targeted effort to provide habitat for bees that are experiencing severe population declines. While making observations on a particular plant species she is considering for these plantings, she observes that the deep purple flowers are visited much more frequently by bees than the light pink flowers (this particular species produces flowers with shades of color varying from deep purple to light pink). She decides to collect seeds from the deep purple plants and then germinates and grows the deep purple flowered plants in her greenhouse before transplanting them to some of the city gardens. The different colors of flowers indicate different ________ of plants and the horticulturalists is demonstrating ________ selection.

In an early attempt to apply mathematical principles, Archbishop James Ussher calculated the age of Earth based on the Old Testament from the Christian Bible. He estimated that the creation of the world took place

As opposed to uniformitarianism, the approach known as catastrophism explains that Earth's geological features are a result of

Give an explanation of the English economist Thomas Robert Malthus' argument, presented in the figure.

In the 1880s, experimental work by August Weisman demonstrated that traits acquired during a lifetime could not be inherited. This dealt a deathblow to previous theories of Lamarckian inheritance and left scientists with which possible scientific processes of evolution?

Which of the following concepts was a commonality of early Greek theories on how life started and how diverse living forms arose?