Uark Biological Anthropology Exam 1 (Delezene) Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Uark Biological Anthropology Exam 1 (Delezene) Questions and Answers 100% Pass Anthropology - study of the interaction between evolutionary and cultural factors Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Biological - 4 subfields of anthropology Paleoanthropology - The study of science concerned with fossils of animals and plants Science - Seeks natural causal explanations for observe phenomenon Falsifiability - can be proven false open to rejection and can be replaced with new data - Why are scientific facts provisional? Hypothesis - statement that suggests a casual relationship between the events; a proposed explanation; a guess about how something works y doesn't occur - How to reject a hypothesis 2Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. Scientific Law - hypothesis have been tested so thoroughly that we have very high confidence in them (never violated) Scientific Theory - Well established and interrelated set of facts/hypothesis that is used to explain diverse evnets and phenomenans everyday; something that is probably wrong. science; most likely right based on facts and experiments - How does the use of the word theory differ from its contextual use in science and in everyday speech? Scala Natural - ranks humans closest to the supernatural world Aristotle - creator of the theory Scala Natural Heliocentrism - having the sun as the center of the universe Copernicus and Galilea - Discovered the Sun-centered universe Ptolemy - believed in a earth centered universe Essentialism - a belief that things have a set of unchanging characteristics that make them what they are and species are no different from any other species *they share traits Plato - Founder of Essentialism Variation is unimportant - Essentialist view on variation 3Emily Charlene © All Rights Reserved 2025. they are composed of similar individuals sharing the same essence - Why are Species Fixed? Carolus Linnaeus - Father of Taxonomy and published "systema Natural" Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species - Taxonomy Hierarchical- biggest to smallest Teleology - the apparent perfect design of organisms- goal oriented- blue print- world is in perfect harmony Paley - Believed in Natural Theology and watchmakers me