The 1982 publication entitled Darwin For
Beginners was written by:
Charles F. Urbanowicz.
Jonathan Miller.
Borin Van Loon.
Jonathan Miller & Borin Van Loon.
2
When Darwin's friend and colleague Thomas Henry
Huxley first read the Origin of Species he said to himself:
"What an idiotic publication, poor Charlie's
lost it!"
"Great scott, the clergy of England will be furious!
"How stupid not to have thought of it before!"
None-of-the-above!
3
The first volume of the celebrated Principles
of Geology (published in 1830), which Darwin took with him on HMS
Beagle, was written by:
Thomas Henry Huxley.
Charles Lyell.
Alexander Humboldt.
Erasmus Darwin.
4
According to Miller & Van Loon, there were
several preconceptions which delayed the recognition of evolution in nature,
including:
man's tendency to project the image of his
own mind onto the world around him.
the biblical notion of special creation.
the Greek philosophical notion of Ideal Forms.
All-of-the-above!
5
Miller & Van Loon write that in the 18th
century ___________ conceded that the age of the earth had been seriously
underestimated and that living things had probably undergone considerable
alteration.
Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829)
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788)
Sorry, none-of-the-above!
6
It was pointed out that the intellectual movement
which came to be known as the "Scottish Enlightenment" elevated _______
as the "queen of the human sciences!"
anthropology
political science
geology
medicine
7
Charles Darwin sailed around the globe for five
years in HMS Beagle over the years:
1821-1826.
1829-1834.
1831-1836
1834-1839
8
When Charles Darwin opened his first notebook
in July 1837 he was a "convert" to the belief held by ______, namely that
of uniform geological change.
James Hutton
Thomas Henry Huxley
Charles Lyell
Jospeh Hooker
9
It was written that when Darwin received a letter
from a certain naturalist in 1858 he is reported to have stated that "If
____ had my Ms. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better
short abstract! Even his terms now stand as heads in my chapters." Charles
Darwin was referring to:
Robert Chambers (1820-1883)
St George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900)
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
10
The biblical account of Creation was seriously
disturbed when explorers of the 16th and 17th centuries began to discover
animals not mentioned in the Book of Genesis.
TRUE
FALSE
11
The first edition of On The Origin of Species
was published in 1869.
TRUE
FALSE
12
As a result of his travels and readings, Darwin
began to appreciate that if the globe had undergone such far-reaching changes
as Lyell suggested, it was not unreasonable to assume that life had undergone
a comparable transformation.
TRUE
FALSE
13
It is a well known fact that Darwin wrote the
following: "In October 1838, that is fifteen months after I had begun my
systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus On Population."
TRUE
FALSE
14
Darwin's final years at Down House (after the
publication of Origin) were lively ones and he was a very healthy
individual until his fatal heart attack in 1882.
TRUE
FALSE
15
In addition to writing what is commonly known
as Origin, Darwin also published books on the formation of coral
reefs, on volcanic islands, and on the geology of South America.
TRUE
FALSE
16
It was pointed out that one of the main ideas
of "Creationism" was that of "intelligent design" but Darwin never accepted
the ideas advocated by William Paley (1743-1805) in his celebrated Natural
Theology.
TRUE
FALSE
17
The theory of "uniformitarianism" which was
proposed by the Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726-1797) supported the
"Catastrophic" history of the world (since" all catastrophes were uniform
in their destruction" as he wrote).
TRUE
FALSE
18
As soon as Darwin began his voyage on HMS
Beagle he was interested in "evolutionary ideas" (as he wrote in his
Voyage of the Beagle).