Arch131 Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
bio/physical anthropology Correct Answer: evolution and variability
paleoanthropology
primatology
Paleoanthropology Correct Answer: ancient human
Primatology Correct Answer: the study of living and fossil primates
First date to age of the world Correct Answer: Irish archbishop James ussher-
world began 4004 bc
Fixity of Species Correct Answer: The notion that species, once created, can
never change; an idea diametrically opposed to theories of biological
evolution.
Humanism Correct Answer: ethics based on logic, reason and empathy
Liberalism Correct Answer: value of individual and freedom
Rationalism Correct Answer: knowledge gained through logical and reasoning
thought
Empiricism Correct Answer: knowledge can be acquired through observation &
experience
science is based off of... Correct Answer: rationalism & empiricism
,european enlightenment Correct Answer: development in scientific framework
mid1600s-1800's
-> advances in natural science, humanities & social sciences
science development Correct Answer: free speech
peer review
empirical testing
bias recognition
Feldhofer cave Correct Answer: germany 1856-> og neanderthal
Discovered by: Johann Fuhlrott & Hermann Shaaffhausen
Rudolf Virchow 1821-1902 Correct Answer: Thought Neanderthals were human
and were a barrier to human evolution understanding
3 important understandings of earth Correct Answer: -extreme age of earth
-extreme age of human history
-evolution/ human mutability
James Hutton Correct Answer: law of uniformitarianism: ancient geological
conditions were the same/uniform to today
Charles Lyell Correct Answer: -extreme antiquity of earth at least 300mil
Too compelling geo evidence for church to evade
Boucher de Perthes Correct Answer: -French found artifacts
,-was thought to be created by lightning
Hugh Falconer Correct Answer: -convinced by Boucher
Jean baptist pierre Lamarck Correct Answer: -Lamarckianism: inheritance of
acquired characteristics
George Cuvier (1769-1832) Correct Answer: - Recognized that fossils seemed to
occur in a particular sequence.
- Deomonstrated that extinction occurred
- Was a Catastrophist: fossils succession was caused by catastrophic processes
-argued against lamarck
-fixity of species: not changed since god created them
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Correct Answer: -natural selection
-influenced by alfred russel Wallace who came up with a similar theory
independently for darwin to publish: On the Origin of Species
-Neanderthals look like humans- descended from monkeys and apes
-mutability of organisms through natural selection
Thomas Henry Huxley Correct Answer: Darwin's bulldog
, The Missing link - Eugene Dubois Correct Answer: Pithecanthropus - (monkey
man) aka -> Homoerectus
Arthur Keith & Marcellin Boule Correct Answer: -believed in evolution
-rejected Neanderthals were an ancestor of modern humans (too primitive)
Broken Hill/ Kabwe skull Correct Answer: -first neanderthal skull found
Taung Child Correct Answer: -missing link candidate
-found by Raymond Dart
-Australopithecus Africanis
Pekking Man Correct Answer: -Davidson Black (homoerectus)
Sterkfontein Cave Pelvis - Correct Answer: 3 million yo
biological variations Correct Answer: 400K species of beatles
John Ray (1627-1705) Correct Answer: came up with the terms "species" and
"genus". He recognized that groups of species were sometimes similar and could
be grouped into genera
species Correct Answer: A group of similar organisms that can breed amongst
themselves
Genus Correct Answer: A group of similar species ex. felines
Linnaeus Correct Answer: taxonomy, swedish, expanded taxonomy of all living
creates,
included humans,
Answers
bio/physical anthropology Correct Answer: evolution and variability
paleoanthropology
primatology
Paleoanthropology Correct Answer: ancient human
Primatology Correct Answer: the study of living and fossil primates
First date to age of the world Correct Answer: Irish archbishop James ussher-
world began 4004 bc
Fixity of Species Correct Answer: The notion that species, once created, can
never change; an idea diametrically opposed to theories of biological
evolution.
Humanism Correct Answer: ethics based on logic, reason and empathy
Liberalism Correct Answer: value of individual and freedom
Rationalism Correct Answer: knowledge gained through logical and reasoning
thought
Empiricism Correct Answer: knowledge can be acquired through observation &
experience
science is based off of... Correct Answer: rationalism & empiricism
,european enlightenment Correct Answer: development in scientific framework
mid1600s-1800's
-> advances in natural science, humanities & social sciences
science development Correct Answer: free speech
peer review
empirical testing
bias recognition
Feldhofer cave Correct Answer: germany 1856-> og neanderthal
Discovered by: Johann Fuhlrott & Hermann Shaaffhausen
Rudolf Virchow 1821-1902 Correct Answer: Thought Neanderthals were human
and were a barrier to human evolution understanding
3 important understandings of earth Correct Answer: -extreme age of earth
-extreme age of human history
-evolution/ human mutability
James Hutton Correct Answer: law of uniformitarianism: ancient geological
conditions were the same/uniform to today
Charles Lyell Correct Answer: -extreme antiquity of earth at least 300mil
Too compelling geo evidence for church to evade
Boucher de Perthes Correct Answer: -French found artifacts
,-was thought to be created by lightning
Hugh Falconer Correct Answer: -convinced by Boucher
Jean baptist pierre Lamarck Correct Answer: -Lamarckianism: inheritance of
acquired characteristics
George Cuvier (1769-1832) Correct Answer: - Recognized that fossils seemed to
occur in a particular sequence.
- Deomonstrated that extinction occurred
- Was a Catastrophist: fossils succession was caused by catastrophic processes
-argued against lamarck
-fixity of species: not changed since god created them
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Correct Answer: -natural selection
-influenced by alfred russel Wallace who came up with a similar theory
independently for darwin to publish: On the Origin of Species
-Neanderthals look like humans- descended from monkeys and apes
-mutability of organisms through natural selection
Thomas Henry Huxley Correct Answer: Darwin's bulldog
, The Missing link - Eugene Dubois Correct Answer: Pithecanthropus - (monkey
man) aka -> Homoerectus
Arthur Keith & Marcellin Boule Correct Answer: -believed in evolution
-rejected Neanderthals were an ancestor of modern humans (too primitive)
Broken Hill/ Kabwe skull Correct Answer: -first neanderthal skull found
Taung Child Correct Answer: -missing link candidate
-found by Raymond Dart
-Australopithecus Africanis
Pekking Man Correct Answer: -Davidson Black (homoerectus)
Sterkfontein Cave Pelvis - Correct Answer: 3 million yo
biological variations Correct Answer: 400K species of beatles
John Ray (1627-1705) Correct Answer: came up with the terms "species" and
"genus". He recognized that groups of species were sometimes similar and could
be grouped into genera
species Correct Answer: A group of similar organisms that can breed amongst
themselves
Genus Correct Answer: A group of similar species ex. felines
Linnaeus Correct Answer: taxonomy, swedish, expanded taxonomy of all living
creates,
included humans,
