Question

1-Before Darwin, what were the prevailing views in the western world about the origin of species, how species change over time, and the relative importance of different species?

2-Explain how each of the following contributed to Darwin’s ideas about evolution: voyage on the Beagle, reading about ideas of Charles Lyell, reading the ideas of Jean-Baptise Lamarck, reading about ideas of Thomas Malthus and knowing Erasmus Darwin

3-Darwin and Wallace didn’t understand a few things about evolution because they some crucial discoveries about genes hadn’t yet been made.

a)What is the unit of inheritance (what gets passed down from one generation to the next)?

b)What are ways that new variations of traits can arise in a population?  

4-Explain why evolution occurs in populations rather than in individuals. When individuals change over their lifetime, what is the mechanism?

5-Describe two ways that cell-like structures could have been created by polymers being enclosed in a boundary. Which of the hypotheses seems most plausible to you and why?

Answer 1