Evolution

Question 1

Adaptive Evolution

Answer 1

process that increases an organisms fitness under the prevailing conditions and occurs over generations

Question 2

3 conditions for AE

Answer 2

traits vary, traits heritable, fitness consequence to trait variation

Question 3

malthus

Answer 3

essay on principle of pop 1798, pop grow past what it should then it will limit

Question 4

hutton

Answer 4

gradualism

Question 5

gradualism

Answer 5

long acting processes that we see today geographically

Question 6

Lamarck

Answer 6

use of characteristics to inherit acquired traits

Question 7

cavier

Answer 7

paleontologist with layers

Question 8

darwin

Answer 8

traveled world studies iguanas and writes essay when he back

Question 9

wallace

Answer 9

almost beat darwin to natural selection, malay archipelago same theory of adaptive evolution and natural selectoon

Question 10

peppered moths

Answer 10

birds eat moths

Question 11

why’d no one like natural selection

Answer 11

earth not old enough for slow processes, no heritability grounds, no intermediate organisms found

Question 12

disproves

Answer 12

radioactive dating, mendel and others, bird reptile mixture found

Question 13

natural selection

Answer 13

mechanism that produces adaptive evolution