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You decide to visit a dinosaur exhibition and while in the museum you see lots of cool species that
once roamed the Earth. Is the fact that all the dinosaurs are gone an example of macroevolution or
microevolution, and what is the difference?
Two different species of ducks are one day found to have bred and produced some eggs. Those eggs
hatch, the ducklings grow up and one day breed – since you’re a biologist you now have a problem,
what is it and what do you need to do about it?
While on a tour of a national park, the ranger tells you that two populations of squirrels have
recently become isolated from each other by a new river. If this river lasts long enough, what might
happen to the squirrels? how?
You are moving around campus and notice two little birds hanging out – what are some ways that
these birds can tell each other apart? What are some ways in which different species are prevented
from breeding with each other?
Someone tells you that since the “missing link” can’t be found it proves that evolution doesn’t exist –
what are some reasons that the “missing link” may not exist much less ever be found? Darwin might
well have expected there to be “missing links” for every species but why would he have been wrong?
Looking around the classroom today you notice a lot of mammals, you see mammals reading their
textbooks (we all love doing that), mammals talking about how much they love biology, mammals
texting each other – why is it that we mammals are currently ruling the Earth?
If you had to take inventory for two million different items what would be one of your first steps?
You are a member of Homo sapiens and your dog is a member of Canis familiaris – where do these
names come from and what do they tell us?