Reproductive Strategies
The number of offspring an individual can have
What is Fecundity
Behaviors that have a cost to the self, but benefit to another
What is Altruism
This is one characteristic that separates humans from all other organisms
What is complex language
The starting location of the COVID-19 pandemic in humans
What is Wuhan, China (Huanan Seafood Market)
As of 2005 approximately this percentage of the US population believed that evolution is true
What is less than 50%
Reproducing only once is called …
What is Semelparity
Unlike direct fitness, this kind of fitness takes into account the fitness of other individuals that carry the same allele
What is Indirect Fitness
This is how long ago the ancestors of humans and chimpanzees diverged from each other
What is 7 million years ago
This species is the reservoir host for SARS viruses
What are horseshoe bats
This model proposes that people object to the fact of evolution due to a lack of information or education on evolution
What is the information deficit model
A species’ reproductive rate at each age and the chance of living to that age makes a…
What is Life History
The Naked Mole Rat is an example of which kind of mammal?
What are Eusocial Mammals
Compared to chimpanzees, the human foramen magnum has shifted in this direction
What is anteriorly (anterior shift)
This is approximately how long is the time of divergence between the closest bat SARS-CoV-2 and first Wuhan human cases
What is one year
The rapid evolution of the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant suggests...
What is relaxed selection in immunocompromised hosts
The principal cause of physiological decline in old age according to the nutation accumulation hypothesis
What is Genetic Drift
“An altruistic trait can increase in frequency if the benefit (b) received by the donor’s relatives, weighted by their relationship (r) to the donor, exceeds the cost (c) of the trait to the donor’s fitness.”
What is Hamilton’s Rule
The approximate percentage of variation in the human genome is shared between populations
What is 88%
The way the COVID-19 pandemic arose is …
What is a zoonotic transmission of a virus from animal to people
This clause of the U.S. constitution makes enforcing teaching creationist ideas unconstitutional
What is the establishment clause
Species that have a delayed start of reproduction, low fecundity per reproductive episode, large offspring, and a longer life are…
What is K-selected
“A strategy such that, if all the members of a population adopt it, then no mutant strategy could invade under the influence of natural selection.”
What is an Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS)
Modern humans have had hybridization events with which other hominins
What are Denisovans and Neanderthals
A strain of a virus consistently has more descendants than another because it spreads to more hosts, and it becomes more common. This process is called…
What is natural selection
This idea is described by the claim “evolution cannot explain the origins of complex cellular machines such as the bacterial flagellum”?
What is intelligent design