Natural Selection and Evolution - Part 1 (Week 9)

Question 1

What did Darwins’ Origin of Species give way to?

Answer 1

• focused biologists’ attention on the great diversity of organisms

Question 2

What is the scala naturae?

Answer 2

• the way species are viewed on a scale

- the way the Old Testament shows species that God made as perfect and individually designed

Question 3

What did Carolus Linnaeus discover?

Answer 3

• founder of taxonomy - classifying organisms

- developed binomial format for naming species (Homo sapiens)