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