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ANTHRO 2B QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WELL ILLUSTRATED. 1. Anthropology: The science that investigates human biological and cultural vari- ation and evolution 2. Culture: Behavior that is shared, learned, and socially transmitted 3. Sociocultural anthropology: ... 4. Linguistic anthropology: The subfield of anthropology that focuses on the na- ture of human language, the relationship of language to culture, and the languages of non literate peoples 5. Archaeology: The subfield of anthropology that focuses on cultural variations in prehistoric and historic populations by analyzing the culture's remains

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1. Anthropology: The science that investigates human biological and cultural vari-
ation and evolution
2. Culture: Behavior that is shared, learned, and socially transmitted
3. Sociocultural anthropology: ...
4. Linguistic anthropology: The subfield of anthropology that focuses on the na-
ture of human language, the relationship of language to culture, and the languages
of non literate peoples
5. Archaeology: The subfield of anthropology that focuses on cultural variations in
prehistoric and historic populations by analyzing the culture's remains
6. Biological Anthropology: The subfield of anthropology that focuses on the
biological evolution of humans and human ancestors, the relationship of humans
to other organisms, and patterns of biological variation within and among human
populations
7. Paleoanthropology: The study of primate and human evolution
8. Epistemology: ...
9. Oxymoron of Creation Science: ...
10. Scientific Paradigms: ...
11. Theories: A set of hypotheses that have been tested repeatedly and that have
not been rejected
12. Hypotheses: An explanation of observed facts, must be testable
13. Plato & the Eidos: Form was a distinct singular thing but caused plural repre-
sentations of itself in particular objects. Truth is not found in this world
14. Aristotle: "Truth is in this world, we live it"
15. Great Chain of Being: The underlying truth governing all things. Things can be
ranked from imperfection to perfection, or simple to complex
16. Fixity of Species: There is no evolution
Nothing changes, nothing goes extinct
Static view of nature
17. Archbishop James Ussher: Reinforced the traditional Judeo-Christian version
of creationism
By counting the generations of the Bible and adding them to modern history, he set
origin at Oct 23, 4004 BC
18. Descartes: I think therefore I am
The idea of consciousness that God implanted knowledge and reason
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, 19. Linneaus: Father of taxonomy
Made classification system for all things
20. Binomial Nomenclature: Use two names to refer to an organism
Genus and Species
All names based on anatomical similarities




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