Evolutionism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Red-feathered and blue-feathered birds occupy the same environment. The birds with the red feathers are better able to survive and avoid predators. This means that the population of red-feathered birds should increase in future generations. This illustrates the process of _____. A. genetic selection B. natural adaptation C. natural selection D. genetic survival 2. _____ introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1859. A. Sigmund Freud B. Charles Darwin C. Stephen Hawking D. Wi...

ANTH 103 ONLINE FALL 2017 – FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 1. Anthropology has long studied the marginalized and remote segments of human society. Recently, a lot of research has begun to look at the upper segments of society, which can help us understand how the other marginalized groups come into being and exist at all. What is this process called? a. studying up c. deep ethnography b. marginalization d. thick description 2. Archaeology, the study of cultures in the human past, focuses on what? a. h...

Characteristics of Living Beings / Cellular Organization / Metabolism / Autotroph / Heterotroph / Abiotic / Biotic / Levels of Ecological Organization / Organelle / Cell / Tissue / Organ / Biotope / Biocenosis / Ecosystem / Biosphere / Hypothetico Deductive / Scientific Method / Hypothesis / Deduction / Biogenesis / Abiogenesis / Spontaneous Generation / Active Principle / Swan Neck Flask / Primitive Earth / The Origin of Life / Creationism / Fixism / Panspermia / Evolutionism / Chemical Evoluti...

Test Bank for A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development 8th Edition.1. (p. 49) As the environment changes, some species adapt in a way that helps them survive and reproduce, while other species do not adapt well and die. This process is called A. canalization. B. sociobiology. C. natural selection. D. genetic inheritance. APA Outcome: 1.1 APA Outcome: 1.2 Bloom's Taxonomy: Remember Difficulty Level: Basic Learning Objective: Discuss the evolutionary perspective on life-span devel...

Chapter 11: German Historical School 1. The meaning of the historical school’s evolutionary approach. Evolutionary approach is a dynamic evolutionary perspective in its study of society. It concentrated on cumulative development and growth. An analogy was sometimes drawn to Darwin’s evolutionism in biology: the social organism is born, develops and grows, and finally decays and dies. Society is constantly changing. Therefore, what is relevant economic doctrine for one country at a part...

Mid-term take home examen, waarbij twee essays geschreven zijn. (1) Describe what kind of evidence the anthropologist needs to collect according to Malinowski in order to be able ‘to grasp the native’s point of view’. Explain what was so revolutionary about his approach. (2) Explain how Franz Boas responded to scientific racism. Does his model enable us to avoid hierarchies of difference?

Concentrate on anthropological ways to deal with the clarification of human conduct and to the examination of social relations. Themes to be talked about include: social change, history, culture, and human "nature"; connection, family, fellowship, and social proliferation; life cycle; investigate of social evolutionism and improvement ideal models.

SOME OF THE CONTENT INCLUDE: How the Culture Concept Developed in Anthropology? Anthropology Emerges Early Evolutionary Frameworks E. B. Tylor-Great Britain Lewis Henry Morgan – US Charles Dar win Edward Burnett Tylor Definition: “culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired b y man as a member of society” The Savage Becomes the Primitive Central t...

Notes cover the basic concepts to Cultural Anthropology, including the different movements of anthropological studies, religion, political organization & social control, arts, applied anthropology, etc. Covers the main figures such as Emile Durkheim, Malinowski, Levi Strauss, etc.

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