Which of these is a statement that Darwin would have rejected?
A) Environmental change plays a role in evolution.
B) The smallest entity that can evolve is an individual organism.
C) Individuals can acquire new characteristics as they respond to new environments or
situations.
D) Inherited variation in a population is a necessary precondition for natural selection to
operate.
E) Natural populations tend to produce more offspring than the environment can
support.

Which definition of evolution would have been most foreign to Charles Darwin during his
lifetime?
A) change in gene frequency in gene pools
B) descent with modification
C) the gradual change of a populationʹs heritable traits over generations
D) populations becoming better adapted to their environments over the course of
generations
E) the appearance of new varieties and new species with the passage of time

About which of these did Darwin have a poor understanding?
A) that individuals in a population exhibit a good deal of variation
B) that much of the variation between individuals in a population is inherited
C) the factors that cause individuals in populations to struggle for survival
D) the sources of genetic variations among individuals
E) how a beneficial trait becomes more common in a population over the course of
generations