Biology 111 study objectives for Chapter 22

1. How is evolution defined?

2. Describe the contributions of the following individuals: Georges Cuvier, James Hutton, Charles Lyell, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace.

3. What is meant by: paleontology, catastrophism, gradualism, uniformitarianism, Inheritance of acquired characteristics?

4. Describe Charles Darwin's background, and what led him to publish his ideas.

5. What are the two main points of Darwin's book "The Origin of Species".

6. Describe the theory of natural selection.

7. What are some observable examples of evolution?

8. Describe how biogeography, fossils, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, and molecular biology contribute to Darwin's ideas.

9. What is meant by relative dating, radiometric dating, homology, homologous structures, vestigial organs, ontology, phylogeny?