Chapter 2 The Development of Evolutionary Theory

Key Terms

Christian fundamentalists	p. 33	Transmutation	p. 25
Fertility	p. 31	Reproductively isolated	p. 21
Fixity of species	p. 19	Reproductive success	p. 29
Natural selection	p. 19	Selective pressures	p. 29
Binomial selection	p. 21	Fitness	p. 31
Taxonomy	p. 21	Biological continuity	p. 33
Catastrophism	p. 23	Genome	p. 32
Uniformitarianism

Suggested Internet Exercises

@ Visit the National Center for Science Education’s website, http://www.ncseweb.org, and read about creationist attempts to teach “creation science” in public schools. Use the “Critiques of Creationism” link and write a paragraph summarizing one of the critiques.

@ One historical figure that vehemently opposed Darwin’s ideas was Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873). Go to the University of California, Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology website for information on Agassiz (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agassiz.html).

@ Go to the University of California, Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology website (http://www.ucmp.berkely.edu/fosrec/Scott.html) for a discussion of antievolutionism.