Fun Facts About Evolution!

Question 1

What percentage of elite athletes are left-handed?

Accepted Answer

50 %

Question 2

What is the closest living reptilian relative of a bird?

Accepted Answer

crocodile

Question 3

Most people had what color of eyes up until about 10,000 years ago?

Accepted Answer

brown

Question 4

The history of evolution can be compared to what object?

Accepted Answer

a tree with many branches

Question 5

T/F: DNA has been an important discovery to evolutionary theory.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 6

T/F: Some snakes have hipbones.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 7

T/F: Scientists think if we begin colonizing other planets, living things would look different.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 8

T/F: Birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 9

About how much of the population is left-handed?

Accepted Answer

10 %

Question 10

What animals have small bones that show they once had back legs & likely walked on land.

Accepted Answer

whales & dolphins

Question 11

If some snakes have hipbones, from what animal are they thought to have evolved?

Accepted Answer

lizards

Question 12

All humans develop what in the womb that usually dissolves by birth?

Accepted Answer

a tail

Question 13

The platypus seems to link which two classes of animals in the evolutionary chain?

Accepted Answer

reptiles & mammals

Question 14

From where is the genetic mutation that gave the first human blue eyes instead of brown?

Accepted Answer

The Black Sea

Question 15

About what percent of the world's population has blue eyes?

Accepted Answer

8 %

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