Anthro 2B Midterm Test Comprehensive
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Verified Answers Graded A+
Anthropology - Answer: The science of human cultural and biological variation and evolution.
Culture - Answer: Behavior that is shared, learned, and socially transmitted. Includes social and
economic systems, marriage customs, religion, philosophy.
Sociocultural - Answer: focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations.
Linguistic Anthro - Answer: focuses on nature of human language, the relationship of language
to culture, and languages of nonliterate people.
Biological Anthro - Answer: Focuses on bio evolution of humans and human ancestors, the
relationship of humans to other organisms, and patterns to bio variation within and among
human populations. AKA: Physical anthropology.
Paleoanthropology - Answer: study of primate and human evolution
primatology - Answer: Scientific study of primates
epistemology - Answer: a way of knowing ex: art, religion, science
Science - Answer: How vs Why, science touches more on how then why. Provisionality,
empirical
,oxymoron of creation science - Answer: assume everything in Bible is true, we were created by
genesis, how can scientists believe the creation and be a science of discovering vast new ideas?
Scientific paradigms - Answer: a framework containing all of the commonly accepted views
about a subject, a structure of what direction research should take and how it should be
performed. Assumptions in science that must be taken.
theories - Answer: a set of hypothesis that have been tested repeatedly and that have not been
rejected
hypothesis - Answer: a falsifiable statement. You fail to disprove it.
plato and the eidos - Answer: eidos meaning ideal type: Ex: a fox is the perfect fox, anything
ideal
Aristotle - Answer: student of plato, said we need to investigate nature and access info from our
world today.
great chain of being - Answer: (lamarck) Ordered from least perfect to most perfect. Put on a
scale of perfection.
Fixity of species(immobility of species - Answer: all species establish initially are all here. No
evolution occurred.
Archbishop James Ussher - Answer: concluded that the earth was less than 6,000 years old.
4004B.C
Rene Descartes - Answer: "I think therefore i am. Said that God gave him a reasoning mind, and
he would investigate nature.
, Linneaus - Answer: TAXONOMY, classifying living things. FATHER OF TAXONOMY
binomial nomenclature - Answer: genus spacies
homo sapiens - Answer: man the wise classifying humans using binomial nomenclature
lamarck - Answer: gives us first scientific model of evolution. He drew Great Chain of Being-
order of perfection.
Evolution through the inheritance of acquired Characteristics - Answer: a mechanism for how
things change, creatures need to adapt to change, if you use it then it develops. Ex: giraffes
acquire slightly longer neck and inherited through offspring.
George Cuvier - Answer: "Father of Paleontology" he analyzed fossil remains of animals that are
extinct. used the hypothesis Catastrophism. We have to accept extinctions(fixity of species is
gone)
Catastrophism - Answer: series of natural disasters like floods, fires that wiped out areas,
creatures in other places came and moved and repopulated. Problem was, how come some
species survive and others don't? Couldn't explain that.
Hutton - Answer: assumed uniformitarianism
uniformitarianism - Answer: assumes that erosions and earthquakes that happen today also
happened in the past. Ex: geological drift.
Questions (Frequently Tested) with
Verified Answers Graded A+
Anthropology - Answer: The science of human cultural and biological variation and evolution.
Culture - Answer: Behavior that is shared, learned, and socially transmitted. Includes social and
economic systems, marriage customs, religion, philosophy.
Sociocultural - Answer: focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations.
Linguistic Anthro - Answer: focuses on nature of human language, the relationship of language
to culture, and languages of nonliterate people.
Biological Anthro - Answer: Focuses on bio evolution of humans and human ancestors, the
relationship of humans to other organisms, and patterns to bio variation within and among
human populations. AKA: Physical anthropology.
Paleoanthropology - Answer: study of primate and human evolution
primatology - Answer: Scientific study of primates
epistemology - Answer: a way of knowing ex: art, religion, science
Science - Answer: How vs Why, science touches more on how then why. Provisionality,
empirical
,oxymoron of creation science - Answer: assume everything in Bible is true, we were created by
genesis, how can scientists believe the creation and be a science of discovering vast new ideas?
Scientific paradigms - Answer: a framework containing all of the commonly accepted views
about a subject, a structure of what direction research should take and how it should be
performed. Assumptions in science that must be taken.
theories - Answer: a set of hypothesis that have been tested repeatedly and that have not been
rejected
hypothesis - Answer: a falsifiable statement. You fail to disprove it.
plato and the eidos - Answer: eidos meaning ideal type: Ex: a fox is the perfect fox, anything
ideal
Aristotle - Answer: student of plato, said we need to investigate nature and access info from our
world today.
great chain of being - Answer: (lamarck) Ordered from least perfect to most perfect. Put on a
scale of perfection.
Fixity of species(immobility of species - Answer: all species establish initially are all here. No
evolution occurred.
Archbishop James Ussher - Answer: concluded that the earth was less than 6,000 years old.
4004B.C
Rene Descartes - Answer: "I think therefore i am. Said that God gave him a reasoning mind, and
he would investigate nature.
, Linneaus - Answer: TAXONOMY, classifying living things. FATHER OF TAXONOMY
binomial nomenclature - Answer: genus spacies
homo sapiens - Answer: man the wise classifying humans using binomial nomenclature
lamarck - Answer: gives us first scientific model of evolution. He drew Great Chain of Being-
order of perfection.
Evolution through the inheritance of acquired Characteristics - Answer: a mechanism for how
things change, creatures need to adapt to change, if you use it then it develops. Ex: giraffes
acquire slightly longer neck and inherited through offspring.
George Cuvier - Answer: "Father of Paleontology" he analyzed fossil remains of animals that are
extinct. used the hypothesis Catastrophism. We have to accept extinctions(fixity of species is
gone)
Catastrophism - Answer: series of natural disasters like floods, fires that wiped out areas,
creatures in other places came and moved and repopulated. Problem was, how come some
species survive and others don't? Couldn't explain that.
Hutton - Answer: assumed uniformitarianism
uniformitarianism - Answer: assumes that erosions and earthquakes that happen today also
happened in the past. Ex: geological drift.
