WVU Anthropology Test 1Correct 100%

Anthropology - ANSWERA scholarly field that focuses on understanding origins, development, and current diversity (biological and cultural) of specific groups of people and the human species as a whole ethnocentrism - ANSWERthe tendency to view ones own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by ones own standards (downfall of early anthropology) scientific racism - ANSWERattempts to use scientific methods and theories to support beliefs in the inferiority of the superiority of what are held to be the biological races of the human species Samuel Morton - ANSWERHuman cranium studied a bunch of skulls to try and prove which race was smarter Jean-Jacques - ANSWERreferred to other as national male noble savage - ANSWERa term coined in a poem by john dryden representing 18-19 century view of small scale or early human societies as uniformly more noble and human than evolution - ANSWERprogressive, transformative change in something over time biological evolution - ANSWERthe process by which plant and animal species change their genetic composition overtime, sometimes leading to the appearance of new species and the disappearance of older one charles darwin - ANSWERnatural selection social/cultural evolution - ANSWERchange in the general characteristics of society (cultures) overtime unlineal - ANSWERin terms of social/cultures evolution, the belief that societies/cultu