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Biological Anthropology Midterm 1Exam Questions and Answers
Anthropology - Answers -Study of humans
Cultural Anthropology - Answers -Study of human behavior
Linguistic Anthropology - Answers -Study of language and perception
Archaeology - Answers -Study of material remains of past cultures
Biological Anthropology - Answers -Study of human/primate biology
Scientific Method - Answers -1. Question
2. Hypothesis
3. Collect data
4. Interpret (can go to 2)
5. Conclude (can go to 1)
Hypothesis - Answers -A testable prediction with little evidence to back it, must be
falsifiable
Theory - Answers -A collection of hypotheses that have withstood repeated attempts at
rejection
Fixity of Species - Answers -Every species was created as it appears today, no new
species can be created, no species have gone extinct, Georges Cuvier
Natural Selection - Answers -Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace, changes in
frequencies of certain traits in populations due to differential success, based on
selective pressures in specific environments, individuals do not change over time
populations do
Catastrophism - Answers -Georges Cuvier, Earth's history was dominated by
catastrophic events that shaped the structure and types of life on Earth, biblical
Uniformitarianism - Answers -Charles Lyell, earth's features are because of long term
processes, proposed immense geological time (disagreed with short age of earth)
Fitness - Answers -Reproductive success
, Reproductive Success - Answers -The passing of genes onto the next generation in a
way that they too can pass those genes on
Lamarckian - Answers -Inheritance of acquired characteristics, offspring inherited traits
from parents acquired in life
Systema Naturae - Answers -A book published by Carolus Linnaeus that discussed
taxonomy
Principles of Geology - Answers -A book published by Charles Lyell that addresses
uniformitarianism and disproved Cuvier's opinions on catastrophism
Origin of Species - Answers -A book published by Charles Darwin that is considered to
be the foundation of evolutionary biology, published after Darwin took note of Wallace's
work
Carolus Linnaeus - Answers -1707 - 1778: Swedish naturalist, binomial nomenclature,
taxonomy, grouped homosapiens with apes
John Ray - Answers -1627 - 1705: species, genus
Comte de Buffon - Answers -1707 - 1788: questioned divine perfection of nature,
argued for mutability of species, saw life as a dynamic process,
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Answers -1744 - 1829: organic forms and environmental
interaction, environmental change cause morphological change, inheritance of acquired
characteristics, model for evolutionary change
Georges Cuvier - Answers -1769 - 1832: comparative anatomy father, species fixity,
established extinction as the explanation for fossil record, catastrophism as explanation
for extinction
Thomas Malthus - Answers -1766 - 1834: wrote Principle of Population, unchecked
population growth leads to famine, there has to be struggle for resources
Charles Lyell - Answers -1797 - 1875: modern geology father, uniformitarianism, wrote
Principles of Geology
Charles Darwin - Answers -1809 - 1882: English natural scientist who formulated a
theory of evolution by natural selection, Erasmus Darwin (1731 - 1802) was his
grandfather, wrote Origin of Species, worked with Wallace
Alfred Russell Wallace - Answers -1823 - 1913: naturalist, evolution crusader, inspired
and worked with Darwin
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