Evolution Flashcards

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Who’s beliefs? The earth is very old and changes in population occur through slow, gradual changes

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Charles Lyell

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Jean Baptiste Lamark’s beliefs?

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Children are like their parents

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Thomas Malthus’ beliefs?

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Not enough food, we have to compete and the strongest will survive

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Who coined survival of the fittest?

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Herbert Spencer

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Galton’s law?

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Each parent contributes 1/2 of the genes to their offspring

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What did Charles Darwin find on the Galápagos Islands?

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Different species of the same bird but different beaks for different environments

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What is biological evolution?

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Change in the properties of groups of organisms over generations

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What components make up descent with modification?

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Reproduction, competition, and selection

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What is evolutionary psychology?

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Psychological traits in terms of evolutionary processes

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What is the fast pathway called and what does it do?

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Amygdala. It sees if there is a danger in the environment. And it is fast but stupid.

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What is the slow pathway called and what does it do?

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Cortex. It tells the amygdala information and it is slow but smart.

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What is it called when an individual makes alliances?

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Altruism

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Which of these are true according to evolutionary theory?

a) Survival of the fittest
b) evolution is just a theory
c) humans are at the top of the ladder
d) humans evolved from monkeys
e) evolution is a completely random process

A

None

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