Evolution Review

Who was Charles Darwin?

• A worker on a boat

• A french guy

• A history man

• He was a naturalist

What is Phylogeny?

• The amount of cells that belonged to early organisms.

• Adaptive change resulting in nonhomologous similarities.

• The evolutionary history of a group of organisms.

• Differences in mammals and birds.

Overpopulation, variation, heredity, and strong survival are all principles of what?

• Natural Selection

• Theory of Biogenesis

• Artiodactyla

• Convergent Evolution

What is Convergent Evolution?

• Species from the same evolutionary branch

• Survival of the fittest

• Species from different evolutionary branches

• Artificial selection

Which human species had all three: Bigger head, use of tools, and bipedal?

• Australopithecus

• Homo Sapiens

• Ardipithecus

• Homo Habilis

Which animal is our closest ancestor?

• Lion

• Chimpanzees

• Fish

• Elephant

What is natural selection?

• When individuals choose other individuals with desirable traits to mate and have offspring with those traits

• Process where males compete to be selected as a mate by females

• Process in which individuals who are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce

• Process where natural disasters determine who the healthiest individuals are

What is bipedalism?

• Walking on 4 legs

• A deadly genetic disease

• The evolution of bigger brains

• Being able to walk on 2 legs

What was Lucy’s genus?

• Tanzania

• Early homo

• Australopithecus

• Ardipithecus

How were our human ancestors able to create and use tools?

• They were inspired by other animals.

• They just decided to one day.

• They had extra limbs or their hands to work with and had bigger brains.

• They found they buried in the dirt.