Question

1. read the key concepts tab to answer questions below: each statement below is incorrect and reflects a common misconception in evolution on the line below each misconception write a correct statement that fixes the statement.

a. misconception: major evolutionary change results from large changes that happen very rapidly.

b. misconception: because fossil evidence is incomplete it cannot be used as a reliable source of evidence for evolution.

c. misconception: modern humans evolved from apes.

d. misconception: the ability to walk upright on two legs is a recent development in human evolution.

Explanation:

a. Corrects the misconception about the rate of major evolutionary change, noting it accumulates gradually.
b. Clarifies that incomplete fossil evidence still provides reliable, complementary data for evolution.
c. Corrects human-ape evolutionary relationship to shared common ancestry.
d. Notes that bipedalism emerged early in human evolutionary history.

Answer:

a. Major evolutionary change results from small, gradual changes accumulated over long periods.
b. Even with gaps, fossil evidence is a reliable source of evidence for evolution, complemented by other data.
c. Modern humans and apes share a common evolutionary ancestor.
d. The ability to walk upright on two legs is an early, key development in human evolution.