Topic 1 Flashcards
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Intelligent design
The proposition that certain features of the universe and of living things work so well where they are so complicated that they must have been the work of an intelligent design, not and unguided process such as natural selection
Irreducible complexity
A sub hypothesis of intelligent design that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved from simpler or less complete predecessors through natural selection acting upon naturally occurring chance mutations
What is Charles Darwin known for?
Natural selection
Who hypothesized that selective, nonrandom breeding might occur in nature?
Charles Darwin
Who is the author of Principles of Geology?
Charles Lyell
Principle of Uniformitarianism, define & name founder
By observing current geological processes, we can explain geological features from the distant past
Who wrote Essay on the Principle of Population?
Thomas Malthus
Who believed that population growth always threatened to overwhelm the available food supply?
Thomas Malthus
Who believed that disasters are avoided by elevated death rates?
Thomas Malthus
Who said ‘organisms produce far more offspring than can survive’?
Thomas Malthus
Darwins synthesis
- Organisms produce for more offspring than can survive (from Malthus)
- Individuals very in their attributes and ability to avoid early death
- Only survivors reproduce
- If treats her hair in a bowl then the next generation should consist of more resistant offspring
- Over geologic time natural selection results in new and better adapted forms of life
Understand the disadvantages of sexual selection
Things that species find attractive when mating are not always the greatest survival features
What did Frans de Waal document?
Precursors of mortality and nonhuman primate that helps strengthen group bonds and enhance group survival
Frans de Waal believed that adaptive value of religion would have…
Enhanced group survival
Who is the author of Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape?
Frans de Waal
Numeracy
How good someone is with numbers
Hypothesis
Educated guess that can be tested
Confirmation bias
Tendency towards evidence and arguments that support our beliefs
Disconfirmation bias
Going to great lengths to disprove ideas we don’t agree with
Speciation
Formation of new kinds
Phylogeny
Evolutionary trait shows relationship between species
