Darwin exam 2

strengths of evolutionary field studies

Transmission among the Aka & Tsimane

Ancestral and Homeopathic taboos & how are they transmitted

Homology vs. Homoplasy’s

Homologous vs. Analogous

Real affinities vs. Adaptive resemblances

Hull’s ethnographic study

Bounded rationality, routines

What happened to Polaroid?

Bacteria & Company Diversification

Relationship between company survival and R&D

Human self-interest vs. cooperation, human free-riders

Why is it important to study culture in non-human species?

Culture tradition

Cumulative culture

Types of social transmission: imitation, emulation, teaching, stimulus enhancement

Over imitating and compulsion to imitate

Examples of chimpanzee culture from Mesoudi chapt. 9

Cultural evolutionary synthesis, Mesoudi’s figure 10.1

Cultural evo-devo and neuromemetics

Darwin’s definition of “Instinct”

Ant “slave-making” instinct

cell -making instinct of the hive-bee

Why sterile insect castes are an eloquent argument against “acquired characteristics” of Lamarck

How “special creation” uses “sterility”

The continuum between sterility and fertility and what this means for evolution

Grafting importance

Denudation

Subsidence

Stations

Natura non facit saltum

Nature does not make leaps

Basics of geology, paleontological collections, and biography for evolutionary theory

What Darwin thinks of lost continents and land bridges and evidence against these things

Basics of what Darwin thinks about extinction

Higher and lower forms and what Darwin means by this

11 Grand facts about Biography

Wide-ranging species’ advantages

Basics of Darwin’s seed experiments

How cold-adapted organisms end up on Southern Mountaintops

The importance/difference of barriers vs. isolation

The importance of embryology, rudimentary organs, comparative anatomy

Islands/continents and biogeography of species

Language

The best features for understanding animal relationships

What Darwin says about our ignorance

The last two sentences of Origin of Species

“Thus, the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exhaulted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly fallows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into this one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”