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Scientific Method and Natural Selection Questions

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Answer the following questions based on Chapter 1 reading and videos. Try your best to summarize the information and write what you have learned in your own words. Any text that you directly copy needs to be in quotation marks. Copying from the textbook will not be enough to get a high grade (see the grading rubric below). For full credit, you should either explain the information in your own words or if you copy text from the book, you should also provide your own interpretation. Please re-copy each question above your answer, making sure to include the question number. Answer in full sentences and DESCRIBE when asked to do so. Submit your answers directly into the submission box. To avoid losing any of your work due to technical problems, I strongly suggest that you record your answers in a word or text file and then paste them into the submission box when you are finished. From the textbook: 1. What is science? 2. What is the scientific method? List and describe the different steps. 3. How does the textbook say science compares to other ways of knowing? What would you add to this, based on your personal experience? 4. Write two questions (related to humans/anthropology) – one that COULD be investigated scientifically and one that CANNOT be tested scientifically. From the "Darwin and Wallace" video: 5. When did Wallace and Darwin go on their research expeditions? What was the predominant view about the origin of species in the mid-1800s? (before Darwin and Wallace developed their ideas about evolution) 6. Describe what Darwin observed about the tortoises and the mockingbirds on the Galapagos Islands. 7. What evidence did Darwin use to support his idea that species come from other species? 8. What did Wallace conclude about where new species arise? 9. What were the names of the publications where Darwin and Wallace described their ideas about natural selection? From "The Theory of Natural Selection" video: 10. List and describe Darwin’s 4 conditions for Natural Selection. Outstanding work with thorough, detailed, and clearly written answers for question 10th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnktXHBvE8s&feature=emb_logo for question 5 until 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiUZ3ycZwU&feature=emb_logo Optional Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P30QlwSsUic&feature=emb_logo
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