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the four major branches of anthropology are - Answer-culture anthropology, biological,
archaeology, and linguistic
the bio culture approach can be defined as - Answer-relation between generic
inheritance and learned information
anthropology is the study of - Answer-humankind and their ancestors
biological anthropology is the study of human ____ and human _____ - Answer-
evolution, variation
what is something cultural anthropologist do - Answer-comparison of wedding rituals in
different cultures
what is something a osteologist would do - Answer-piece together tiny fragments of a
skeleton
a scientists is carefully digging up a fossil human ancestor. she is participating in which
discipline? - Answer-paleoanthropology
you would contact a paleopathologist of the skeleton you just found - Answer-may have
signs of infectious disease in its bone
forensic anthropologists study - Answer-the identification of skeletal remains and the
means by which individuals have died
are written records of particular societies studied by cultural anthropologist - Answer-
Ethnographies
the effect of a particular plant compound on healing a wound be studied by - Answer-
biomedical anthropologists
the most important source of data for archeologists are - Answer-ancient tools and other
material culture left by earlier societies
from the perspective of biological anthropology, humans are - Answer-the product of
adaptation
the first physical anthropologist focused mostly on - Answer-anthropometric
measurements
, the main founder of the "new physical anthropology" was - Answer-Sherwood
Washburn
which of the following best describes how anthropologist primarily learn new information
about humans - Answer-field work
true of false. over the vast time period of human evolution, the role of culture becomes
less important as we approach the present - Answer-false
biological anthropologists are interested only in the study of biological phenomena and
are not interested in the study of culture - Answer-false
Great philosophers are considered founders of science because - Answer-they thought
that animals and humans had come from the same natural process
What are Aristotle's ideas about nature - Answer-all life is arranged in an orderly and
hierarchical fashion
humans are at the top of a great chain
fixity of species
In Europe during the middle ages was believed that - Answer-all forms were created by
God did not change over time
This pair of thinkers took the literal interpretation of the Bible to such a way that they
believed that creation happened on a specific date in the year 4004 BC - Answer-
Ussher and Lightfoot
During the middle ages ____ scientist kept the scientific idea of the Greek and Roman
philosophers alive - Answer-muslim
In science a tentative explanation and prediction is known as - Answer-hypothesis
The belief that species do not change but are the same as when first created is known
as - Answer-fixity of species
ascending order of creation from beings with lesser perfections to beings with greater
perfections - Answer-the great chain of being
Several events had combined to alter western European ideas about the earth by the
18th century these included - Answer-the work of Comte de Buffon on the age of earth
the discovery of the New World
the discovery of apes
The scientist who proposed the theory of catastrophism was - Answer-George Cuvier
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