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Week 2 of Introduction to Biological Anthropology
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When and where was Charles Darwin born?
1809, Shrewsbury
When and where did Charles Darwin die?
1882, Downe
Who raised Charles Darwin?
His aunty
How many children did Charles Darwin have?
Ten
What is the ancient hierachial structure for organising life called?
Ladder of Nature
What was Charles Darwin grandfathers name?
Erasmus Darwin
What did Charles Darwin do in Edinburgh University
Studied medicine and anatomy
Who did the zoology professor Robert Grant introduce Charles Darwin to?
Erasmus and Lamarck
Who was the french natralist that believed humans evolved from another species via new adaptations?
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
What is the following process called? Changes in the enviroment→needs of the organism→adapted by their behaviour and modifications occur→use or dissue of a given organ/structure
Lamarckism
What is the law called that states organs that are used more become developed and more efficient?
Law of Use and Disuse
What is the law called that state heritability happens from generation to generation?
Law of inheritance of aquire characteristics
What did Charles Darwin go to Cambridge for?
A general Bachelor of Art
What was one of Charles Darwins hobbies that inspired his development into a naturalist?
Beetles collecting competetively
Who was an Anglican preist that created the ‘The Watch and the Watchmaker’ analogy?
William Paley
What is ‘The Watch and the Watchmaker’?
An analogy suggesting that the complexity of the universe implies a designer, much like a watch implies a watchmaker
Who created the term Uniformitarianism?
Charles Lyell
What is uniformitarianism?
The future will resemble the past
Who wrote the essay on the Principle of population?
Thomas Malthus
What is the Principle of Population?
Needs factors to regulate population because food is finite
Who introduced Charles Darwin to the Captain of the Beagle
John Stevens Henslow
Who is the Captain of the Beagle?
Robert FitzRoy
Who funded the Beagle voyage?
Charles Darwin’s Father
What did the fossils show Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage?
Some of the fossiled looked similar to species that are living today
What did the cliff show Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage?
Evidence of ancient sea levels
What did the finches on the galapagos show Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage?
All species developed from a common ancestor
What is it called when selective breeding causes major changes in the features of plants and animals?
Artificial selection
Who was the British naturalist that thought of natural selection in evolution?
Alfred Russel Wallace
What is the change in the properties of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual called?
Biological evoltion
What type of selection is when members of one sex choose mates based on particular characteristics?
Inter-sexual selection
What is the form of selection when members of one sex compete to gain access to mates?
Intra-sexual selection
Who was the Agustian Monk, botanist teacher who did well-designed experiments on plants and published foundations of genetics?
Gregor Mendel