Macroevolution

What is macroevolution

• the hypothesis that processes of evolution transforms over a long period of time

• the hypothesis that processes of evolution transforms over a short period o time

If macroevolution happened then fossil record should be what?

• littered with "missing link"

• "Missing Link" would not exist

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If macroevolution really occured, would you expect to find more fossils or individual species or missing links?

• inidividual species

• intermediate links

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What are Darwin's two greatest evidences for macroevolution?

• geological column

• structural homolgy

• Cambrian eplosion

• punctuated equilibrium

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Charles Darwin is a what?

• Macroevolutionist- species evolved over a long period of time

• that species where created into this world by God

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What is the man for the stages inbetween the slow evolution between a monkey and a man?

• intermediate varieties

• missing links

• transitional forms

• all of the above

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The second defense of marcoeveolution by people that supported Darwin's theory was?

• that some fossils do exist of "missing link" but they are highly questionable

• that perfect fossils exist of the missing links that really nobody can deny

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what is the name of the very famous bird that macroevolutionist want to point to as proof of evolution?

• Archaeopteryx

• Australopithecus

• Lucy

What is the big assumption that must be made in order to interpret the geological column as evidence for macroeveltion?

• the geological column was formed slowly over time

• the geological column was formed fast

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Why is the geological column not conclusive evidence for or against macroevolution?

• because we really don't know who the geological column was formed

• because the geolocial form tells us so

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