Darwin and Further Developments

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Week 2 of Introduction to Biological Anthropology

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When and where was Charles Darwin born?

1809, Shrewsbury

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When and where did Charles Darwin die?

1882, Downe

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Who raised Charles Darwin?

His aunty

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How many children did Charles Darwin have?

Ten

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What is the ancient hierachial structure for organising life called?

Ladder of Nature

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What was Charles Darwin grandfathers name?

Erasmus Darwin

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What did Charles Darwin do in Edinburgh University

Studied medicine and anatomy

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Who did the zoology professor Robert Grant introduce Charles Darwin to?

Erasmus and Lamarck

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Who was the french natralist that believed humans evolved from another species via new adaptations?

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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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

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What is the law called that states organs that are used more become developed and more efficient?

Law of Use and Disuse

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What is the law called that state heritability happens from generation to generation?

Law of inheritance of aquire characteristics

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What did Charles Darwin go to Cambridge for?

A general Bachelor of Art

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What was one of Charles Darwins hobbies that inspired his development into a naturalist?

Beetles collecting competetively

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Who was an Anglican preist that created the ‘The Watch and the Watchmaker’ analogy?

William Paley

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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

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Who created the term Uniformitarianism?

Charles Lyell

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What is uniformitarianism?

The future will resemble the past

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Who wrote the essay on the Principle of population?

Thomas Malthus

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What is the Principle of Population?

Needs factors to regulate population because food is finite

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Who introduced Charles Darwin to the Captain of the Beagle

John Stevens Henslow

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Who is the Captain of the Beagle?

Robert FitzRoy

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Who funded the Beagle voyage?

Charles Darwin’s Father

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What did the fossils show Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage?

Some of the fossiled looked similar to species that are living today

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What did the cliff show Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage?

Evidence of ancient sea levels

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What did the finches on the galapagos show Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage?

All species developed from a common ancestor

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What is it called when selective breeding causes major changes in the features of plants and animals?

Artificial selection

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Who was the British naturalist that thought of natural selection in evolution?

Alfred Russel Wallace

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What is the change in the properties of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual called?

Biological evoltion

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What type of selection is when members of one sex choose mates based on particular characteristics?

Inter-sexual selection

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What is the form of selection when members of one sex compete to gain access to mates?

Intra-sexual selection

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Who was the Agustian Monk, botanist teacher who did well-designed experiments on plants and published foundations of genetics?

Gregor Mendel