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anthropology

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comte de buffon
external environment as an agent of change in species
john ray
species concept
cultural anthropology
contemporary cultures
anthropology
is the study of the humankind, both from the cultural and biological aspects across space and time
linguistics
the study of languages
gradualism versus punctuated equilibruim
tempos of evolution
georges cuvier
catastrophism
biological species concept
a group of interbreeding organisms who are reporductively isolate from other organisms and produce viable offsprings
theory of natural selection
1)more offsprings are born than survive to reproductive age 2) members of a population vary in behavior and form 3) some inherited and improve chances of survival 4) offspring inheriting favored traits survive and reproduce in greater numbers
microevolution + macroevolution
small scale changes (ex: mutation, natural selection
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a hypothesis has to be testable and be able to be rejected
jean baptist lamarck
inheritance of acquired traits, use and disuse hypothesis
the scientific method
1)identify a research problem 2) formulate a question/statement 3) develop a hypothesis 4) choose research method 5) predict 6) observe 7) conclude from the results
what was behind natural selection
charles darwin, alfred wallace, and thomas malthus (wrote an essay on the principle of population
gradual orderly condition to another
a change in genetic structure of a population
in anthropology why is the unique
the diversity, culture, observation method, and cultural relativism
physical anthropology
all the biological aspects of humankind
archaeology
studying pact human life forms
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evolution is the most fundamental unifying force in biological
what is the different between lamarks hypothesis and darwin's natural selection?
lamark's theory involved the adaptation through reproduction and Darwin's natural selection was due to the environment change
applied anthropologist
utilizing all 4 disciplines
carolus linnaeus
Sytema Naturae published in 1735 classifcation system
charles lyell
founder of modern geology, and uniformitarianism

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