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1. What will probably be the effect of the second epidemic relative to the first? Why?
2. Define genotype and phenotype and explain the relationship between the two.
3. Define the term species, and tell why it can be difficult to determine whether two organisms are members of the same or different species. 4. Describe Hooke's (Steno's. Burton's, Cuviees, Hutton's, Smith's, Malthus's, LyeII's, Lamarck's) contribution to the scientific study of evolution.
5. Describe Lamarck's mechanism for evolution. What parts do we acknowledge were correct and what pans do we now know were wrong?
6. Explain how anthropology is distinguished from other disciplines that focus on some aspect of the human species.
7. Explain how evolution can be considered a fact, a theory, and a hypothesis.
8. Explain the difference between reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
9. Explain the differences between scientific knowledge and knowledge gained through belief systems.
10. Explain why genetic drift is more effective in small populations. 1
11. natural selection is so good at maintaining and even improving a species' adaptation, under what circumstances then do species ever become extinct?
12. Most mutations are deleterious. Without mutations, however, there could be no evolution. Explain.
13. Some people say that evolution in our species has stopped. Respond to this claim.
14. Speciation takes place as a result of the isolation of a group within a species. What sorts of things can serve to bring about this isolation? Can it happen without large-scale geographical isolation? How?
15. The story of sickle cell anemia is an example of the holistic approach of anthropology. Explain how.
16. What are macromutations, and what relationship do they have with the origin of new species?
17. What are the main discoveries of "evo-devo" and what are the ramifications for our understanding of evolutionary processes?
18. What does it mean to say that reproductive isolating mechanisms "do not evolve in order to produce new species?"