Darwinian View

Question 1

what percentage of americans believe in evolution?

Answer 1

40%

Question 2

what percentage of europeans believe in evolution

Answer 2

80%

Question 3

what are the reasons that people don’t believe in evolution

Answer 3

1. religious beliefs
2. evolution is too slow
3. morally wrong use of the theory

Question 4

how to combat religious beliefs

Answer 4

speak about why you don’t have to forsake your religious beliefs for evolution

also talk about how religion and evolution are in different realms

Question 5

how to combat that combat that evolution isn’t fast enough

Answer 5

speak about how the iguanas and bacteria [see notes]

Question 6

how to combat morally wrong use of the theory

Answer 6

essentially that just bc people used evolution for harm doesn’t make evolution itself inheriantly bad

Question 7

steps to take when you are approached with a weird theory

Answer 7

1. ask for evidence
2. if the evidence adds up ask them to justify their acts

Question 8

what should one never do in regards to a theory?

Answer 8

make it off limits

Question 9

what are the parts of natural selection

Answer 9

1. variation
2. consequences
3. heritability

Question 10

Individuals vary in their traits (speed, height, shyness, boldness).

Answer 10

variation

Question 11

Individuals possessing certain traits survive and reproduce
better than others.

Answer 11

consequences

Question 12

Offspring resemble parents in these qualities.

Answer 12

heritability

Question 13

what is true about natural selection

Answer 13

it can favor a trait but not create it

Question 14

before natural selection what were the two ways that things were explained

Answer 14

mechanically or the supernatural

Question 15

who is brighter female or male fish and why?

Answer 15

male bc females are more important and males try to impress the females to mate

Question 16

what are two costly things to do

Answer 16

growing and reproducing

Question 17

are upstream or downstream guppies bigger and why?

Answer 17

down stream because their predators are bigger.

Question 18

what was important about the guppies experiment

Answer 18

when the researchers swiped the guppies they changed to match the environment

Question 19

who connected the dots about the moth experiment and when

Answer 19

Kettlewell (1955)

Question 20

what are three adaptive reasons for infanticide

Answer 20

• non-paternity
• lack of resources
• unfit

Question 21

who is the poster child for non=paternity infanticide

Answer 21

lions

Question 22

which lions stay in pack forever?

Answer 22

females (sisters)`

Question 23

how many years does it take to reproduce and raise a cub

Answer 23

3-4 years

Question 24

how long does a male lion stay with a pride usually

Answer 24

3-4 years

Question 25

is it easier to add on or cut back to a pack

Answer 25

cut back

Question 26

what is your success dependent on?

Answer 26

how many genes copies you donate

Question 27

what are malformed offspring viewed as?

Answer 27

dead ends

Question 28

what is the cinderella effect?

Answer 28

a step parent is 100x more likely to beat to death a step child.

Question 29

what are cells called that don’t do their jobs?

Answer 29

cancer cells