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10.1 Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Lesson 10.1: True or False Date Name Class Write true if the statement is true or false if the statement is false. 1. As recently as 200 years ago, many people believed that Earth was only 6,000 years old. 2. Artificial selection occurs when nature selects for beneficial traits. 3. The individual Galápagos Islands are all similar to each other 4. Malthus argued that human populations grow faster than their resources. 5. Lamarck was one of the first scientists to propose that species evolve by natural selection. 6. Lyell was one of the first to say that Earth must be far older than most people believed. 7. Lamarck's inheritance of acquired characteristics is has become a widely accepted scientific theory. 8. Fossils proved to Darwin that species can evolve. 9. The term fitness to refer to an organism's ability to outrun its hunters. 10. Darwin published his findings soon after returning to England from the voyage of the Beagle. 11. According to Darwin, natural selection is what occurs, and evolution is how it happens. 12. During his journey aboard the Beagle, Darwin found fossils from the seas in the mountains. 13. Galápagos tortoises have differently shaped shells depending on where they live. 14. Darwin's book changed science forever. 15. Alfred Russel Wallace developed theory of evolution at the same time as Darwin. a

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