Evolutionary Biology Charles Darwin I: The Origin of Species by Alfred L. Rosenberger, Ph.D. Reading Quiz Teach with this 1. On the Origin of Species was written in what decade? 1830s 1850s 1870s 1890s 2. Which of the following was NOT an important theme of Origins? phylogenetic relationships natural selection recapitulation adaptation 3. Darwin’s great work of 1871 about the origins of humans was called Evidence of Man’s Place in Nature Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man Origins of the Human Species On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 4. Nineteenth-century creationists interpreted the individuals of species as exact replicas, whereas Darwin saw them as having variability. true false 5. One key feature of Darwin's theory of natural selection was that members of the same species show variability within a population. only some species are able to change over time. the structure of every species is based on a model, ideal form. there is no possibility that species change over time. 6. Why was Darwin's contribution to the theory of evolution so important? Darwin was able to prove to the public that the Fixity of Species concept was not correct. Darwin was able to put his research and observations into a basic model that the public would understand. Darwin was able to travel to places no one had ever seen before and document the organisms that lived there. Darwin was the first person to propose the idea of evolution and the first to publish a paper on the topic. 7. Which statement best explains why Darwin avoided discussing human beings in Origins? He believed that Fixity of Species explained how humans came to exist. He had not completed his explanation on how humans had evolved. He understood that natural selection does not apply to human beings. He was afraid of the response he would get from religious groups. Score Quiz
