Evolution Quiz Flashcards
speciation in a population of animals is believed to occur extremely rarely
Sympatric
One of the assumptions of the Hardy-Weinberg theorem is that
Mating within the population is random
Before publication of On the ORIGIN of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin published a short summary of his theory alongside a paper written by ______________, who had independently arrived at many of the same conclusions.
Alfred Wallace
According to Charles Darwin, organic evolution is “descent with modification,” which simply means
Populations change over time
The idea of evolution did not originate with Charles Darwin. For example, the Greek philosophers __________ believed that living organisms change over long period of time.
Empedocles and Aristotle
The eighteenth century comparative anatomist, __________, became convinced that change had occurred during the history of life on earth, but he thought that organisms degenerated from their previous state.
Buffon
grandfather of Charles Darwin, believed in the common origin of all animals.
Erasmus Darwin
Jean Lamarck proposed a theory of evolution involving
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
A group of individuals of the same species that occupy a given area at the same time and share a common set of genes is the definition of a/an
Population
The study of the genetic events that occur in a gene pool is
Population genetics
Parapatric speciation may occur among small, local populations called
Demes
Geographic isolation can lead to speciation, and when it does, the speciation is called
Allopatric