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ACCURATE ANSWERS.GRADE A+ ASSURED
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon - answer ✔✔-Who of the following was an 18th century French
thinker who believed that living forms changed over time, yet still rejected the idea that one species
could give rise to another.
Alfred Russel Wallace - answer ✔✔-Which contemporary of Charles Darwin also developed a theory of
evolution by means of natural selection?
Catastrophism - answer ✔✔-Which of the following is the view held by Cuvier that the extinction and
the subsequent appearance of more modern forms could be explained by a series of disasters and
creations?
Artificial Selection - answer ✔✔-The large variety of dogs that exist today were produced through
__________ by humans.
The Fixity of Species - answer ✔✔-Carolus Linnaeus held the belief that life forms could not and did not
change. This came to be known as ________.
1. Has branching events with common ancestors giving rise to descendants
2. Is gradual
3. Uses natural selection - answer ✔✔-Darwin described that evolution:
Resources are limited, which limits the number of individuals who can survive and reproduce. - answer
✔✔-According to Malthus, the reason that our planet has not been completely overrun by living
organisms due to unlimited population growth is that: