Which statement best applies to Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory?
a. His ideas were readily accepted by religious fundamentalists and cultural conservatives.
b. His works were truly revolutionary in that they were the first to propose a theory of evolution.
c. His theory emphasized the idea of the "survival of the fit" in which advantageous natural variants and environmental adaptations in organisms determine their survival.
d. His On the Origin of Species described man's evolution from animal origins through natural selection.
e. He envisioned utopian evolution, unlike Marx who predicted materialistic revolution.
c
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a. France b. Britain c. Portugal d. The Netherlands e. Spain
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A) Grenada. B) Somalia. C) Kosovo. D) Panama.
When discussing the question of the terrible decimation of the Native American peoples after 1500, your text concludes that most deaths resulted from
A) European diseases. B) intertribal warfare. C) modern weaponry. D) extermination of traditional game.
Catherine the Great's engagement with the ideas of the Enlightenment would be best described as
A) helping to encourage a lot of talk but little real action. B) consistently resistant to Enlightenment influences. C) fundamentally transformative to the Russian states. D) more beneficial to women than in other European nations, E) instrumental in leading Russia toward democracy.