The most controversial part of the Darwinian biological theory as spelled out in On the Origin of Species (1859) was that characteristics are passed on by means of “natural selection”, and thus: __________.
a. By an overarching intelligence that plans out the benefits of each species.
b. By a purposeful design in which humans intervene for the benefit of each species.
c. By random chance and a haphazard process.
d. By genetic information contained within an organism's cells.
c. By random chance and a haphazard process.
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A) Betty Friedan B) Margaret Sanger C) Sigmund Freud D) Simone de Beauvoir
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A) the younger segment of the Native American civil rights movement B) Indian protests for protection of land, water rights and sacred sites C) Native American efforts to reassert old treaties and stop police harassment D) an effort to establish cultural programs and reawaken Native American spiritual beliefs E) All of these choices
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A) ?believed the Church of England had not moved far enough away from Catholicism. B) ?had broken away from the Church of England. C) ?were radical Calvinists. D) ?had moved to the Netherlands initially where they could worship openly. E) ?All of these are correct.
After the Turks were defeated in 1687 all of Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Slovenia came under Habsburg rule, thus establishing in southeastern Europe the
a. German Empire. b. Holy Roman Empire. c. Austrian Empire. d. Bohemian Empire. e. Ottoman Empire.