Human Bio Unit 2 - Evolution of Evolution

Question 0

Le Compte de Buffon

Answer 0

Realised that there were many different organisms distributed differently around the world

Question 1

What was everything originally based on?

Answer 1

The Bible

Question 2

The 2 big ideas

Answer 2

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Charles Darwin

Question 3

Jean-Baptist Lamarck

Answer 3

Believed a change in the environment causes changes in the needs and behaviours of organisms in that environment

Said all changes are inherited

Thought species didn’t become extinct but became something new

Question 4

How did Jean-Baptist Lamarck think organism evolved?

Answer 4

He thought that characteristics used regularly would become stronger/more efficient

And anything not used as much or at all would get smaller and possibly disappear completely

Question 5

Charles Darwin birth and death

Answer 5

1809-1882

Question 6

Man who proposed a similar theory to Darwin’s at the same time

Answer 6

Alfred Russell Wallace

Question 7

Charles Darwin’s observation

Answer 7

Noticed that even though that many organisms produced lots of offspring, their population stayed the same

Concluded that the strongest are best suited, with the best variations, so survive and breed

Question 8

Jean-Baptist Lamarck birth and death

Answer 8

1744-1829