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Ant 101 Nau
Scientific Theory - ️️a process that includes the different ways that scientists find
out about the natural world and try to explain what they have observed.
Uniformitarianism - ️️the doctrine that geological processes operating in the present
have also operated in the same way in the pa...
ant 101 nau exam 1
Scientific Theory - ✔️✔️a process that includes the different ways that scientists find
out about the natural world and try to explain what they have observed.
Uniformitarianism - ✔️✔️the doctrine that geological processes operating in the present
have also operated in the same way in the past and will do so in the future.
Biological Anthropology - ✔️✔️the study of the biological and bio-cultural facts of
human and their relatives.
Cultural Anthropology - ✔️✔️the study of human culture in all its complexity.
Linguistic Anthropology - ✔️✔️the study of language, its structure, function, and
evolution.
Archaeology - ✔️✔️the study of patterns of behavior and the material records of
humans who lived in the past.
Ethnocentrism - ✔️✔️is the belief that the moral standards, manners, and attitudes of
one's own culture are superior to those of other cultures.
Cultural Relativism - ✔️✔️is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and
activities should be understood by other in terms of that individual's own culture.
Scientific Method - ✔️✔️the steps scientists use to create explanations based on the
evidence they gather.
Hypothesis - ✔️✔️a testable explanation for the observed facts
Holistic Approach - ✔️✔️the practice of drawing on all sub-disciplines of anthropology
as well as other disciplines to attempt to answer questions about humans.
Primatology - ✔️✔️the scientific study of primates.
Paleoanthropology - ✔️✔️the study of fossil humans and human relatives.
Bioarchaeology - ✔️✔️the study of the human biological component evident in the
archaeological record.
, Forensic Anthropology - ✔️✔️is the application of the science of physical or biological
anthropology to the legal process
Immutable - ✔️✔️The idea that earth, people, animals, and plants are unchanging and
due to special creation.
Catastrophism - ✔️✔️the belief that great catastrophes regularly wipe out much of life
on earth.
Adaptation - ✔️✔️change in response to environmental challenges.
Reproductive Success - ✔️✔️a measure of the number of surviving offspring an
organism has.
Taxonomy - ✔️✔️naming and classification of organisms base on morphological
similarities and differences.
Binomial Nomenclature - ✔️✔️is a formal system of naming species of living things by
giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms,
although they can be based on words from other languages.
Fixity of Nature - ✔️✔️all species remained unchanged since time of creation.
Demography - ✔️✔️the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the
incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.
Bishop James Ussher - ✔️✔️said that the earth was about 6000 years old.
Carolus Linnaeus - ✔️✔️Father of taxonomy.
Comte de Buffon - ✔️✔️Said that Species must have both improved and degenerated
after creation
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ✔️✔️said that earth is old thought humans evolved from ape
like creatures and thought organism must have a will to change.
George Cuvier - ✔️✔️established extinction as a fact and believed in catastrophism.
James Hutton - ✔️✔️Father of modern geology and believed in Uniformitarianism.
Charles Lyell - ✔️✔️Studied geologic strata confirming uniformitarianism.
Thomas Malthus - ✔️✔️Demography.
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