Anthropology 101 Exam #1 Question with verified
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What is Anthropology - √√Study of humans past, and present. The study of human origins,
migrations, globalization, beliefs and rituals.
Four Major Fields of Anthro. - √√Cultural, Biological, archaeology, and Linguistic.
Cultural Anthropology - √√Examination of social patterns and practices, with specific interest in
how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, and create meaning.
Biological Anthropology - √√Concerned w/ biological and behavioral aspects of humans, their
non-human primates and their extinct hominin.
Archaelogy - √√Study of past peoples and cultures through analysis of material remains.
Linguistic - √√Comparative of study of ways in which language reflects and influences social life.
Evolution - √√A change in allele frequency in the population over time.
Allele - √√Alternate forms of the same gene.
Gene - √√Sequence of necleotides in DNA located on chromosomes and basic unit of
inheritance.
Trait - √√A quality or characteristic that is genetically determined.
Population - √√Group of organisms that share the same gene pool.
, Gene Pool - √√All alleles present in a population of interbreeding individuals.
Mechanisms of Evolution - √√How the allele frequency of a trait changes in a population over
one or more generations.
Macroevolution - √√Changes in allele frequency that creates a new species (gene pool
separates). Takes many generation and it depends on environment and forces of evolution.
Species - √√Groups of individuals capable of fertile interbreeding but reproductive isolated from
other such groups.
Comte de Buffon (1770) - √√First to notice among plants in different enviorments and
concluded that species adapted to new environments.
Erasmus Darwin - √√Believed that evolution has occurred in living things (including humans)
and that the earth and life on it must have been evolving for millions of years before the
appearance of humans.
Lamarcks Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics - √√Physical forms changes based on physical
needs. Considered to be "improvements" that accumulated over a lifetime that acquired
characteristics are passed on to next generation. (Giraffes long neck explanation).
George Cuvier - √√Discredited Lamarck's theory on basis that if it were true, children of
cowboys who have developed bowed legs from riding horses would be born with bowed legs as
well.
Catastrophism - √√Theory that Earth has been affected in past by sudden violent events that
caused changes in organisms.
Theory of Uniformitarianism - √√Natural forces now changing shape of earth's surface have
been operating in much the same way in past (i.e. the present is key to understanding the past).
answers
What is Anthropology - √√Study of humans past, and present. The study of human origins,
migrations, globalization, beliefs and rituals.
Four Major Fields of Anthro. - √√Cultural, Biological, archaeology, and Linguistic.
Cultural Anthropology - √√Examination of social patterns and practices, with specific interest in
how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, and create meaning.
Biological Anthropology - √√Concerned w/ biological and behavioral aspects of humans, their
non-human primates and their extinct hominin.
Archaelogy - √√Study of past peoples and cultures through analysis of material remains.
Linguistic - √√Comparative of study of ways in which language reflects and influences social life.
Evolution - √√A change in allele frequency in the population over time.
Allele - √√Alternate forms of the same gene.
Gene - √√Sequence of necleotides in DNA located on chromosomes and basic unit of
inheritance.
Trait - √√A quality or characteristic that is genetically determined.
Population - √√Group of organisms that share the same gene pool.
, Gene Pool - √√All alleles present in a population of interbreeding individuals.
Mechanisms of Evolution - √√How the allele frequency of a trait changes in a population over
one or more generations.
Macroevolution - √√Changes in allele frequency that creates a new species (gene pool
separates). Takes many generation and it depends on environment and forces of evolution.
Species - √√Groups of individuals capable of fertile interbreeding but reproductive isolated from
other such groups.
Comte de Buffon (1770) - √√First to notice among plants in different enviorments and
concluded that species adapted to new environments.
Erasmus Darwin - √√Believed that evolution has occurred in living things (including humans)
and that the earth and life on it must have been evolving for millions of years before the
appearance of humans.
Lamarcks Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics - √√Physical forms changes based on physical
needs. Considered to be "improvements" that accumulated over a lifetime that acquired
characteristics are passed on to next generation. (Giraffes long neck explanation).
George Cuvier - √√Discredited Lamarck's theory on basis that if it were true, children of
cowboys who have developed bowed legs from riding horses would be born with bowed legs as
well.
Catastrophism - √√Theory that Earth has been affected in past by sudden violent events that
caused changes in organisms.
Theory of Uniformitarianism - √√Natural forces now changing shape of earth's surface have
been operating in much the same way in past (i.e. the present is key to understanding the past).
