Test 2 People

Question 1

Father was a Doctor
Wanted him to be a doctor
Was an average student in HS
Father said he was unfit to be a doctor 
So he went to Cambridge to be a clergyman

Answer 1

Charles Darwin

Question 2

Clergyman, Naturalist, Botanist
Inspires Charles Darwin
Is sent specimens from Darwin while he is on his trip which he shares with other scientists
Over 1500 species

Answer 2

John Henslow

Question 3

Captained the HMS Beagle
commissioned to chart shoreline of South America
Guy before him got so lonely he killed himself
needed a friend
asked Henslow who turns him down
Brings Darwin

Answer 3

Robert Fitzroy

Question 4

Pays to travel on HMS Beagle to see the world and it’s wildlife
Gets so seasick hikes the southern tip of South America
Convinces uncle to pay for this trip
Supposed to be 2 years, turns into 5

Answer 4

Charles Darwin

Question 5

Determined the Earth is much older than 6000 years by seeing seashells at every level of a mountain
Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism
This begins his departure from common religious beliefs

Answer 5

Charles Darwin

Question 6

Studies and characterizes over 1500 lifeforms
Begins to question “functionality”
He throws an Iguana in an Ocean and it keeps coming right back to him- must be because its only predators are in the ocean
Beaks of Finches on different Islands are designed to reach different food that’s available

Answer 6

Charles Darwin

Question 7

Marries Charles Darwin
Actually his cousin
They have 11 kids

Answer 7

Emma Wedgewood

Question 8

Economist
Writes about how population increases more than food can creating competition
argued for less support of poor because it would just weaken England
Influences Darwin
“the struggle for existence”

Answer 8

Malthus

Question 9

Figures out Natural Selection- that favorable variances tend to be preserved eventually leading to a new species
Did not publish these findings because it would be like “confessing a murder” -no one would approve
1840’s

Answer 9

Charles Darwin

Question 10

Came up with the notion that all species come from one common ancestor with small changes over time
Influenced his grandson to discover the correct mechanism for evolution
1808

Answer 10

Erasmus Darwin

Question 11

Came up with theory of inheritance of aquired characteristics
For example If I work out frequently and get really strong biceps my children will have stronger biceps
Chain of Being
1809

Answer 11

Jean Lamarck

Question 12

came up with the idea of social Darwinism that some people do better than others because they are better

Answer 12

Herbert Spencer

Question 13

Came up with idea of natural selection in 1858 and asks Darwin to read his paper
It was basically the same theory so they end up presenting the idea together
Since his books had caught fire when his ship burned down Darwin ends up getting most of the credit

Answer 13

Alfred Wallace

Question 14

Wrote “On the Origin of Species”
or
“On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”
Much more data driven than Wallace’s book

Answer 14

Charles Darwin

Question 15

Influences Psychology by encouraging comparative psychology with the idea that we aren’t that different from animals
Said animals have emotions too
Inspires Functionalism
First to study developmental psych

Answer 15

Charles Darwin

Question 16

Wrote:
The Decent of Man 1871
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals 1872
A biographical Sketch of an Infant 1877
Was buried in Westminster Abbey; a huge honor

Answer 16

Charles Darwin