ant 101 nau exam 1 study guide with
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Biological Anthropology - Answer️️ -the study of the biological and
bio-cultural facts of human and their relatives.
Cultural Anthropology - Answer️️ -the study of human culture in
all its complexity.
Linguistic Anthropology - Ans...
ant 101 nau exam 1 study guide with
complete solutions
Biological Anthropology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of the biological and
bio-cultural facts of human and their relatives.
Cultural Anthropology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of human culture in
all its complexity.
Linguistic Anthropology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of language, its
structure, function, and evolution.
Archaeology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of patterns of behavior and the
material records of humans who lived in the past.
Ethnocentrism - Answer✔️✔️-is the belief that the moral standards,
manners, and attitudes of one's own culture are superior to those of
other cultures.
Cultural Relativism - Answer✔️✔️-is the principle that an individual
human's beliefs and activities should be understood by other in
terms of that individual's own culture.
Scientific Method - Answer✔️✔️-the steps scientists use to create
explanations based on the evidence they gather.
Scientific Theory - Answer✔️✔️-a process that includes the different
ways that scientists find out about the natural world and try to
explain what they have observed.
Hypothesis - Answer✔️✔️-a testable explanation for the observed
facts
Holistic Approach - Answer✔️✔️-the practice of drawing on all sub-
disciplines of anthropology as well as other disciplines to attempt to
answer questions about humans.
Comparative Approach - Answer✔️✔️-the practice of comparing
features across entities/cultures/organisms to elucidate similarities
and differences.
Primatology - Answer✔️✔️-the scientific study of primates.
Paleoanthropology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of fossil humans and
human relatives.
Bioarchaeology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of the human biological
component evident in the archaeological record.
Forensic Anthropology - Answer✔️✔️-is the application of the science
of physical or biological anthropology to the legal process
Immutable - Answer✔️✔️-The idea that earth, people, animals, and
plants are unchanging and due to special creation.
Uniformitarianism - Answer✔️✔️-the doctrine that geological
processes operating in the present have also operated in the same
way in the past and will do so in the future.
Catastrophism - Answer✔️✔️-the belief that great catastrophes
regularly wipe out much of life on earth.
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