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Anthro Midterm 1, UC BERKELEY Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass What are the four fields of anthropology? - 1. archaeology - culture as interpreted through bones 2. cultural anthropology - study cultural practices 3. linguistic anthropology - how people make and use language 4. biological ...

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What are the four fields of anthropology? - ✔✔1. archaeology - culture as interpreted

through bones


2. cultural anthropology - study cultural practices


3. linguistic anthropology - how people make and use language


4. biological anthropology - theories of DNA


What topic of focus unifies all the fields of anthropology? - ✔✔It is the study of people


Linguistics - ✔✔the scientific study of the structure, sounds, and meaning of language


Archaeology - ✔✔study of culture via artifacts and relics of early mankind


Primatology - ✔✔the study of living primates and particularly their similarities and

differences and why they may exist


Skeletal Biology - ✔✔The study of the human skeleton in relation to other tissues such

as muscles and tendons.


Paleoanthropology - ✔✔study of anatomy and behavior of humans and our extinct

relatives




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,What were the first origin myths and what was the concept of fixity of species? - ✔✔The

first origin myths found that the world is fixed and unchanging, life is a series of

creations reflecting increasingly perfect organisms and there is a great watchmaker

designing people.




Fixity of species is a term which means all species remained unchanged throughout the

history of the earth


What is the Great Chain of Being? - ✔✔god, angels, humans, animals, plants, minerals


What contribution did John Ray and Carl Linnaeus make to classifications of organisms

and our place in nature? - ✔✔John Ray - defined and establish species (defined by

individual capacity to reproduce)




Carl Linnaeus - added class and order, included humans in the animal kingdom


How did people interpret the fossil record in the early 17th and 18th century? -

✔✔leonardo da vinci suggested that fossils are extinct organisms and the deeper you go

the older they are. BUT for a while they believed in biblical time frames


Lamarckian v Darwinian theories of evolution - ✔✔darwin: wanted to explain geologic

record, suggested environment was shaping and changing organisms




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, lamarck: animals drive to accomodate environment "inheritance of acquired

charecteristics"


Influences on Darwin's Theory of Evolution - ✔✔Lyell- slow incremental pace of

geologic change


Malthus- resource competition


Wallace - discovered logic of natural selection


What is selective intentional breeding and how did it help Darwin? - ✔✔selective

intentional breeding - The intentional breeding of organisms with desirable traits in an

attempt to produce offspring with enhanced characteristics or traits that humans

consider desirable.




Darwin used this as a springboard to explain natural selection - its non purposeful

breeding


intentional v inadvertent artificial breeding - ✔✔intentional: breed for certain traits, aka

wolfs to dogs




inadvertent artificial selection: peppered moths survived in ash


differential reproduction - ✔✔organisms with the best adaptations are most likely to

survive and reproduce



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