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Biology 14.2
Biology- Evolution: A Retreat from Science 14.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Changes within a particular kind of organisms referring to variations in the gene pool within population is what? | speciation |
| The process by which new kinds of creatures emerge from existing kinds over time. | macroevolution |
| Has macroevolution ever been observed in nature? | No. |
| What is the study of fossils is called? | paleontologoy |
| What is one of the most powerful evidences against evolution? | The fossil record when viewed from a biblical perspective. |
| Geologist of Darwin's day expected the fossil record to prove evolution by providing fossils of _________ ________, or "_______ ________" | transitional forms or "missing links" |
| Has any true, unquestionable transitional form or "missing link" ever been found to bridge the gaps between different kinds of organisms. | NO. |
| The hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid specialization between long periods of little or no change. | Punctuated equilibrium hypothesis |
| The simple-to-complex sequence of fossils known as _______ ______ or geologic time chart. | geologic column |
| The geologic column is a _____ ______ of fossils and rocks collated from everywhere, arranged according to evolutionary assumptions; even in the few locations where a large portion of the column may be founds, individual layers or systems are incomplete. | hypothetical arrangements |
| Where is the succession of fossils indicated by the geologic column? | Nowhere in the world!!! |
| The trilobites lived before dinosaurs and dinosaurs lived before mammals is only and _______ based upon the hypothesis of evolution. | assumption |
| Layers in the geologic column are identified by the presence of characteristic fossils or ___ ____ of those layers. | index fossils |
| Evolutionists also use a technique known as _______ _________to lend credence to the ancient dates used in the geologic column. | radiometric dating |
| One of the serious contradictions between the facts of the fossil record and the hypothesis of evolution is known as the "________ _________." | Cambrian explosion |
| The Cambrian explosion is just the arrangement we would expect if....??? | life were divinely created |
| Rocks of the Devonian Period contain fossils of an unusual 6-foot-long fish called the _________. | coelacanth |
| the fossil bird ___________ is often presented as an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and modern birds. | Archaeopteryx |
| What is the "horse series" really? | A collection of unrelated mammals that share similar overall body parts |
| The book in which Darwin points out the similarities between man and "other animals." | The Descent of Man |
| One of the most famous "early man" fossils of the 20th century was Eoanthropus commonly known as _____ _______. | Piltdown Man |
| For over _____ ______, Piltdown Man was used as "proof" that man had evolved form apes. | 40 years |
| One example is the famous "early human" known as Hesperopithecus, or ______ _______. | Nebraska Man |
| What was Nebraska Man reconstructed from? | A single tooth |
| What was Nebraska Man's tooth? | it came from a extinct pig |
| Another "missing link" between apes and humans that has been discarded is _________. It was a medium-sized ape originally "reconstructed" from a few teeth, a heavy jawbone, and fragments of facial bones. | Ramapithecus |
| What does Homo habilis mean? | "handy man" |
| Dubios dubbed the fossil Pithecanthropus erectus, but it was popularly referred to as _______ ________. | Java Man |
| Fossils were found in the city of Beijing, China that were simmilar to Java Man's fossils they chose to call these? _____ _____ | Peking Man |
| In a limestone cave perched on a cliff in Germany's Neander valley yielded the first skeletal remains of what would become known as ______ ______ which had apelike features. | Neanderthal man |
| He was discovered in 1868 in southwest France and thought to be an early man. | Cro-Magnon man |
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