Exam 1

Question 1

Copernicus

Answer 1

Astronomer who placed sun at the center of the universe rather than the earth.

Question 2

Ptolemy

Answer 2

Mathematician, astronomer who was a poet of a single epigram Greek anthology.

Question 3

Linnaeus

Answer 3

Classification ; humans are animals

Question 4

Lamark

Answer 4

Environment influences the adaptation. Of the organism which occupies it

Question 5

Malthus

Answer 5

Believed in population control The principal of population ultimately became natural selection.

Question 6

Cuvier

Answer 6

Diversity between organisms.

Question 7

Buffon

Answer 7

Argued for mutability (changing ) of species ; species change over time.

Question 8

Lyell

Answer 8

Geological processes today are the same as the past. Called uniformitarianism. Environments change over time.

Question 9

Wallace

Answer 9

Independently discovered mechanism of natural selection same time as Darwin.

Question 10

Ussher

Answer 10

Scholar and church leader who set the date of Creation

Question 11

RA Fisher

Answer 11

Founder of modern evolutionary synthesis and population genetics

Question 12

JBS Haldane

Answer 12

Worked on population genetics to combine work of Darwin and Mendel

Question 13

Stephen Jay Gould

Answer 13

Paleontologist who proposed that evolution has long periods of stability with some wife periods of branching evolution.

Question 14

George Simpson

Answer 14

Expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. Expert on evolution.

Question 15

E. Mayr

Answer 15

Species can only breed with themselves.

Question 16

T Dobzhansky

Answer 16

Surmised that evolution is a change in the frequency of an allele in a gene pool

Question 17

Seewall Wright

Answer 17

Studied effects of inbreeding