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HONORS EVOLUTION I - REVIEW SHEET
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Objectives
1. __ Describe the historical context in which Darwin developed his
concept of evolution.
2. __ Identify the ideas common in society and science prior to Darwin’s
concept of evolution.
3. __ Explain how Darwin’s voyage provided him evidence that led to his
conception of evolution by natural selection.
4. __ Explain how Darwin’s knowledge of selective breeding or artificial
selection provided an analogy for his concept of natural
selection.
5. __ Describe how Darwin’s knowledge of contemporary geologic ideas
helped support his concept of evolution as a gradual process.
6. __ Describe how Darwin’s knowledge of limits on human population
growth provided an analogy for his concept of natural selection.
7. __ Identify the principles of natural selection, describe each, and give
numerous detailed examples of the process in action.
8. __ Describe Darwin’s life including his upbringing, education, and
possible reasons for his delay in publication of his book On the
Origin of Species.
9. __ Identify others who had concepts of evolutionary change including
and describe how their ideas influenced Darwin.
10. __ Describe the work of Wallace and explain how natural selection
helps to explain the geographical distribution of species.
11. __ Describe various forms of ‘resistance’ and explain how knowledge
of natural selection helps to explain these events.
12. __ Describe the concept of sexual selection and use it to explain
characteristics of organisms that can’t be explained through
simple natural selection.
13. __ Describe and give examples of the process of coevolution.
14. __ Contrast divergent and convergent evolution using the terms
homologous and analogous structures.
15. __ Briefly explain how knowledge from the fields of paleontology,
anatomy and physiology, embryology, and molecular biology
supports Darwin’s concept of evolution.
16. __ Contrast the everyday and scientific meaning of the term ‘theory’
and explain how use of the term is
17. __ Explain and give examples of how evolutionary adaptations of
complex organism structures are inconsistent with intelligent
design.
18. __ Identify and graphically represent the three common means that
natural selection can change a population distribution.
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__ Carl Linnaeus
__ Georges Cuvier
__ natural theology
__ fixed species
__ catastrophism
__ Georges Buffon
__ James Hutton
__ Charles Lyell
__ theory of uniformity
__ industrial revolution
__ geology
__ Jean Baptist Lamarck
__ Thomas Malthus
__ human population
__ struggle for existence
__ artificial selection
__ plant domestication
__ dog domestication
__ Charles Darwin
__ Captain Fitzroy
__ HMS Beagle voyage
__ Galapagos islands
__ Darwin’s finches
__ natural selection
__ Principle of variation
__ Principle of overpopulation
__ Principle of selection
__ Emma Wedgewood
__ Annie Darwin
__ Thomas Huxley
__ Alfred Wallace
__ Malay Archipelago
__ Wallace’s Line
__ biogeography
__ On the Origin of Species
__ Peter & Rosemary Grant
__ John Endler
__ drug resistance
__ antibiotic resistance
__ pesticide resistance
__ Sexual selection
__ embryology
__ molecular biology
__ coevolution
__ divergent evolution
__ homologous structures
__ convergent evolution
__ analogous structures
__ complexity
__ adaptation
__ fitness
__ adaptive radiation
__ theory
__ evolution
__ descent with modification
__ fossil record
__ vestigal structures
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