ANTH-101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Stephen Jay Gould, James Ussher, Catarrhini
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Dr. birut galdikas observed orangutans by: filming orangutans near sources of food and water, forming close relationships with orphaned orangutans, establishing a habitat for orangutans in her research lab, establishing camp near a high-ranking group of adult females. Pandas used their wrists intensively to obtain enough bamboo leaves to survive, causing their wrist bones to lengthen, a trait they passed on to their offspring. This examples illustrates the theory of transformational evolution. Biologists have discovered that physical differences in offspring result from the way. Alfred russel wallace and charles darwin:co-authored a publication in which they first proposed their ideas on evolution. The work of archbishop james ussher was incompatible with the concept of descent with modification because 6 000 years did not allow enough time for this process to occur. When organisms actively perturb the environment in ways that modify the selection pressures experienced by subsequent generations of organisms, this is called niche construction.
