ANTH 1001 – Tague Review Questions with
100% Correct Answers
Principle of Fixity of Species - Karl von Linne
All species were created by God (creationist), and each species was fixed in its characteristics
and was unchangeable
Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (Theory of Use and Disuse) - Jean
Baptiste Lamarck
All organisms have needs in order to survive (food, avoid predators and other conditions)
Met by modification of organs/tissue or the establishment of new organs to satisfy these
needs
The continued use of these organs leads to increase in organisms complexity and functional
capacity, disuse of it would led to its degeneration and loss
Changes in the organs that occur within one's lifetime become inheritable and can be passed
on to offspring
Theory of Catastrophism - George Cuvier
In the past, there were a series of sudden violent cataclysmic events that caused the extinction
of animals in the affected areas
After the events subsided, the area was relatively depopulated. Animals from nearby areas
migrated in and repopulated (these animals were similar to the extinct ones, but not identical)
Able to demonstrate that any one species does not change over time, they are fixed by God by
certain events. The immigrant animals that repopulated the area satisfied the evidence of a
series of similar looking animals across time
Theory of Uniformitarianism - Charles Lyell
, Forces existing today to shape the earth are the same that were present in the past (ex. the
formation of a mountain or the change in the direction of flow of a river)
Thomas Malthus
Cleric who published important essay called "Essay on the Principle of Population"
Charles Darwin
Made many of important observations on the Galapagos Islands (600 miles of northwest
coast of Ecuador)
Alfred Russell Wallace
While under a fit of malaria, had an idea and wrote a three page paper
Darwin was alarmed - this was the same idea that he had been working on for 20 years and
_______would get credit
• Darwin wrote a short paper on the same ideas, and both papers were read
1859
was the publication date of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection
Tenets of Darwin's (and Wallace's) Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Reproductive potential of a population or species is great or manifold
Resources in the environment are in limited or short supply (there will be competition among
species for food)
Biological variation is a normal feature within a species
Any hereditary variation that allows any organisms a slight advantage in the competition for
resources, will be perpetuated.
100% Correct Answers
Principle of Fixity of Species - Karl von Linne
All species were created by God (creationist), and each species was fixed in its characteristics
and was unchangeable
Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (Theory of Use and Disuse) - Jean
Baptiste Lamarck
All organisms have needs in order to survive (food, avoid predators and other conditions)
Met by modification of organs/tissue or the establishment of new organs to satisfy these
needs
The continued use of these organs leads to increase in organisms complexity and functional
capacity, disuse of it would led to its degeneration and loss
Changes in the organs that occur within one's lifetime become inheritable and can be passed
on to offspring
Theory of Catastrophism - George Cuvier
In the past, there were a series of sudden violent cataclysmic events that caused the extinction
of animals in the affected areas
After the events subsided, the area was relatively depopulated. Animals from nearby areas
migrated in and repopulated (these animals were similar to the extinct ones, but not identical)
Able to demonstrate that any one species does not change over time, they are fixed by God by
certain events. The immigrant animals that repopulated the area satisfied the evidence of a
series of similar looking animals across time
Theory of Uniformitarianism - Charles Lyell
, Forces existing today to shape the earth are the same that were present in the past (ex. the
formation of a mountain or the change in the direction of flow of a river)
Thomas Malthus
Cleric who published important essay called "Essay on the Principle of Population"
Charles Darwin
Made many of important observations on the Galapagos Islands (600 miles of northwest
coast of Ecuador)
Alfred Russell Wallace
While under a fit of malaria, had an idea and wrote a three page paper
Darwin was alarmed - this was the same idea that he had been working on for 20 years and
_______would get credit
• Darwin wrote a short paper on the same ideas, and both papers were read
1859
was the publication date of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection
Tenets of Darwin's (and Wallace's) Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Reproductive potential of a population or species is great or manifold
Resources in the environment are in limited or short supply (there will be competition among
species for food)
Biological variation is a normal feature within a species
Any hereditary variation that allows any organisms a slight advantage in the competition for
resources, will be perpetuated.
