Chapter 2- Concepts, Premises, & Pioneers

Question 1

Who?

Belief:
Humans and birds were similar
Similarities were a manifestation of a divine architectural plan of the Creator

Answer 1

Pierre Belon

Question 2

2 factors/methods of Organic Evolution

Answer 2

Common Ancestry

Adaptive Modifications

Question 3

refers to coincidental resemblance

Answer 3

analogy

Question 4

similarities between structures that cannot be explained by homology

Answer 4

Homoplasy

Question 5

applied to traits that have enabled a phenotype to meet new environmental challenge before it materializes

Answer 5

Preadaptation

Question 6

Formation of new species is preceded in almost every instance, if not invariably, by geographical isolation if a population from other populations of the same species

or

emergence of new species from preexisting ones

Answer 6

Speciation

Question 7

Geographical isolation + ________ ➡️ matrix out of which new species evolve

Answer 7

genetic change

Question 8

When two or more unrelated organism occupy similar environments,whether concurrently or millions of years apart, and acquire similar morphological features as adaptations to that environment

Answer 8

Evolutionary Convergence

Question 9

Development history of an organism

Answer 9

Ontogeny

Question 10

The evolutionary history of a taxon

Answer 10

Phylogeny

Question 11

Features common to all members of a major taxonomic group of animals develop earlier in ontogeny than do features that distinguish subdivisions of the group
(law)

Answer 11

Von Baer’s Law

Question 12

Features that develop earliest in ontogeng are the oldest phylogenetically, having brrn inherited from early common ancestors

Answer 12

Corollary