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Evolution - correct answer ✔✔Change over time
Microevolution - correct answer ✔✔evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms,
especially over a short period.
Macroevolution - correct answer ✔✔large-scale evolutionary changes that take place over long periods
of time
Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival
Variation - correct answer ✔✔Any difference between individuals of the same species.
Applied anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the practical application of knowledge gained from any of the
branches or the subfields of anthropology
Branches of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔1) Biological/physical anthropology
2) Cultural/social anthropology
3) Archaeology
4) Linguistics
Physical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔the study of humans from a biological perspective,
particularly focused on human evolution
Linnaeus - correct answer ✔✔father of taxonomy (inspo by John Ray), Binomial nomenclature
Taxonomy - correct answer ✔✔science of classification
, Class, order, genus, species. Three broad groups: Animals, plants, minerals
Uniformitarianism - correct answer ✔✔Charles Lyell's idea that geologic processes have not changed
throughout Earth's history. Slow and gradual process of Earth's formation.
Lyell - correct answer ✔✔'Father of uniformitarianism' - belief that the earth was old, and catastrophism
happened slowly
Darwin - correct answer ✔✔English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural
selection.
What book did Darwin publish? - correct answer ✔✔On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection
What school did Darwin go to? - correct answer ✔✔University of Edinburgh, but he was not a good
student.
What did Darwin leave Cambridge Uni to pursue? - correct answer ✔✔initially, anglican parson, but
changed to natural history
What was Darwin offered after college? - correct answer ✔✔position as a gentleman naturalist on board
British naval vessel H.M.S. Beagle
What were Darwin's idea during his voyage? - correct answer ✔✔All life had "transmuted" from a single
life-form. Fossils represent animals previous to living descendants (some now extinct). Species evolved
rather than were created.
Wallace - correct answer ✔✔English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled
Charles Darwin's. Father of Biogeography.
Where did Wallace go and do? - correct answer ✔✔went to the amazon and did an expedition to Malay
Archipelago. he collected specimens important to science.
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