Development of Evolutionary Theories

Who is considered as the father of evolution?

• Aristotle

• Carolous Linnaeus

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Koch

What work of Aristotle focuses on the history and descriptions of animals?

• A. De Generatione Animalium

• Historia Animalium

• Naturalis Historia

• Muqaddimah

Which of the following is a work by a Basran scholar that contained early ideas regarding what would eventually be known as natural selection?

• Considérations sur les Corps Organisées

• Kitab al-Hayawan

• Naturalis Historia

• Muqaddimah

Who among the following Greek philosophers was a student of Plato and is known as one of the earliest naturalists?

 

• Aristotle

• Pliny the Elder

• Theophastus

• Zeno

Which among the views about the natural world did not come from St. Thomas Aquinas?

• Creation myths should not be taken literally, and instead, be reconciled with science.

• Natural events or phenomena occur with an ultimate purpose or direction.

• The development or increase in complexity of organisms occurs at random.

• There is no disconnect between the creation myth and the observations made by natural philosophers.

Who published the Kitab al-Hayawan, which is also known as the Book of the Animals?

• Al Jahiz

• Aristotle

• Theophrastus

• Zeno

Which of the following texts proposed the possible origin of humans from monkeys?

• De Generatione Animalium

• De Generatione Humanis

• Kitab al-Hayawan

• Muqaddimah

Which scientist proposed the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics?

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

What is the book that talks about comprehensive work that deals with living organisms and the universe?

• Considérations sur les Corps Organisée

• De Partibus Animalium

• Naturalis Historia

• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Who was one of Aristotle’s successors which made an extensive work on plants and created Historia Plantarum?

• Plato

• Pliny the Elder

• Theophrastus

• Zeno