Question 1
Sparsely populated regions that sent representatives to the House of Commons were known as
a. empty boroughs.
b. abandoned boroughs.
c. stale boroughs.
d. rotten boroughs.
e. field boroughs.
Question 2
What was the subject of Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man?
a. It questioned the new evolutionary theories.
b. It proposed the first theory of genetic mutations.
c. It argued for the animal origins of human beings, who had evolved by adapting to their environment over time.
d. It placed humans in the center of a rational universe.
e. It predicted the extinction of man and the rise of a new creation that would dominate nature.
The work of Charles Darwin forms the foundation for modern evolutionary theory.
Othniel Charles Marsh
Descent of the testes.
Darwin’s finches: Adaptive radiation of bill types.
Two woodcuts from Darwin’s 1872 book, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, that he used ...
Charles Darwin