Natural Selection

Who were the first biologists to propose the theory of evolution by natural selection?

• Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz

• Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace

• Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

• Gregor Mendel and Thomas Hunt Morgan

What was the traditional way of thinking about life in the early 1800s, known as?

• Artificial Intelligence

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Engineering

• Natural Theology

According to natural theology, what was the belief about species?

• They were constantly changing

• They were fixed and never changed

• They were all extinct

• They were created by humans

What was the main idea of natural theology regarding the design of species?

• Each species had a perfect design created by God

• Species had no design at all

• Design of species was constantly changing

• Design of species was determined by natural selection

What book influenced Charles Darwin's thinking about natural theology?

• The Origin of Species

• The Descent of Man

• Natural Theology

• The Malay Archipelago

What was the primary mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin?

• Artificial selection

• Random variation

• Genetic mutation

• Natural selection

What term was coined by biologist Herbert Spencer and appeared in the fifth edition of Darwin's 'Origin of Species'?

• Survival of the Fittest

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Evolution

Who invented the discipline of biogeography, the study of plants, animals, and geological formations together?

• Charles Darwin

• Thomas Robert Malthus

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Henry Walter Bates

What did Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace publish together in 1858?

• The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle

• The Malay Archipelago

• The Origin of Species

• A joint letter in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London

What did Charles Darwin publish in 1859 that became a scientific bestseller?

• The Malay Archipelago

• The Descent of Man

• The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle

• The Origin of Species