Would Darwin or Lamarck have agreed with the following statement?"Anteaters developed long, thin tongues because they are perfect tools to scoop ants out of small cracks or holes in logs or dirt mounds. This feature got longer and longer as an anteater tried to become better and better at catching food."Group of answer choicesDarwinLamarck
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Would Darwin or Lamarck have agreed with the following statement?"Anteaters developed long, thin tongues because they are perfect tools to scoop ants out of small cracks or holes in logs or dirt mounds. This feature got longer and longer as an anteater tried to become better and better at catching food."Group of answer choicesDarwinLamarck
Solution
This statement aligns more with Lamarck's theory of evolution. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that an organism can change during its lifetime in response to its environment, and those changes are then passed onto its offspring. In this case, the statement suggests that anteaters developed long, thin tongues because they needed to adapt to their environment to become better at catching food, which is a key aspect of Lamarck's theory.
On the other hand, Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection suggests that traits beneficial for survival are more likely to be passed on to the next generation. However, it does not suggest that organisms develop or change traits out of necessity during their lifetime. Instead, those individuals with traits that are advantageous for survival are more likely to reproduce and pass on these traits to their offspring. So, while Darwin might agree that anteaters with longer tongues were more likely to survive and reproduce, he would not agree with the idea that the tongues got longer because the anteaters were trying to become better at catching food.
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