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ANP Exam Questions And Correct Answers 2024-2025Anthropology - ANSWER the study of humans
Four Field Anthropology - ANSWER cultural anthropology-ethnography
Aracheology-artifacts
Linguistic
Biological
bicultural approach - ANSWERinteractions between biological evolution and cultural
adaptation
Biological anthropologists - ANSWER paleontologists, ex of some are dr Fujita, dr
Hefner
Geocentric Model - ANSWER A model of the universe in which stars and planets revolve
around Earth. Ptolemy proposed the model.
argument from design-ANSWER All of nature is designed in accord with a
predetermined, benevolent, and supernatural plan.
fixity of species-ANSWER The view that species, once created, can never change; an
idea diametrically opposed to theories of biological evolution.
Scala Naturae (Great Chain of Being) - ANSWER organisms are unchanging and range
from simple to complex; no extinction, no new species, no variation; idea that developed
before world exploration and discovery of fossils
View on geological time - ANSWER how old the earth was
Copernicus - ANSWER heliocentric model
, Galileo - ANSWER He was the first to view objects in space with a telescope. He learned
that the planets and moons were physical entities due to his studies of the night time
skies, he also provided support via his telescopic ideas
John Ray - ANSWER the man who developed a modern definition of the word species
Carolous Linnaeus - ANSWER A scientist who invented the system of Binomial
Nomenclature or the Binomial System.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - ANSWER Suggested that the earth was much
older than previously believed
James Hutton - ANSWER father of modern geology; uniformitarianism
Jean baptize Lamarck - ANSWER Inheritance of Acquired Charecteristics
Georges Cuvier - ANSWER Catastrophism, earths landscape resulted from disasters
Charles Darwin - ANSWER English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South
America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Thomas Malthus - ANSWER Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that
population growth threatened future generations because, in his view, population
growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWER British naturalist who developed a hypothesis of
natural selection similar to Darwin's
Gregor Mendel - ANSWER Father of genetics
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