Which philosopher anticipated a form of vaguely evolutionary thinking?DemocritusAristotlePlatoArchimedes

Which two medieval ideas discouraged evolutionary thinking? Christian theology and

spontaneous generation Christian theology and astrology Christian theology and the feudal

system Spontaneous generation and the

feudal system

The term "Lamarckism", derived from the theory of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, is now used to describe which idea? The Ladder of Progress Social Darwinism The human species alone did not

result from evolutionary processes The inheritance of acquired

characteristics

Whose work inspired both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace to develop the idea of natural selection? The British Royal Society Carolus Linnaeus Thomas Malthus Immanuel Kant

What did Mendelian genetics reveal? Inheritance of acquired

characteristics Particulate inheritance Linear inheritance Blending inheritance

Why is Wallace less frequently remembered than Charles Darwin in discussions of evolutionary theory?

Wallace published his book after the The Origin of Species

Darwin developed his ideas further, and Wallace retracted some of his ideas about the evolution of humans

Darwin really stole his idea from Wallace, but no one wants to reveal that fact

Wallace was a minority and social context of the time marginalized him

Which two scientists co-authored the theory of punctuated equilibrium? Stephen Jay Gould and Richard

Lewontin Niles Eldredge and Richard

Lewontin Niles Eldredge and John Maynard

Smith Stephen Jay Gould and Niles

Eldredge