UCLA Anthro 1 Midterm 1 2025/2026
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Natural Selection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Evolution by variation and selective
retention
Morphology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an organism's size, shape, and composition
Stabilizing Selection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Selection required to change a
population and then keep it the same for future generations
species - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dynamic population of individuals
individual selection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔adaptation results from the
competition among individuals
continuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔grade slowly from one extreme to another
discontinuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔several distinct types exist with no
intermediates
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,convergence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔evolution of similar adaptations in unrelated
species
blending inheritence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mother and father contribute a
hereditary substance that mixes
Copernicus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1473-1543) Believed sun is center of the
universe
Galileo - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1564-1643) Use of quantitative experiments and
precise measurement
Newton - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1643-1727) Earth and other celestial beings
governed by same laws of nature - physics
Age of Exploration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Time period during the 15th and 16th
centuries when Europeans searched for new sources of wealth and for
easier trade routes to China and India. Resulted in the discovery of North
and South America by the Europeans.
Lyell - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1797-1875) British geologist who believed in
geographical uniformitarianism
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, Law of Uniformitarianism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that the same
processes we see occurring now also occurred in the past
Law of Stratigraphic Superposition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔sedimentary laters are
deposited in sequence, oldest on the bottom, youngest on the top
Georges Couvier - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1769-1832) French naturalist and
zoologist who compared fossils with living species. Established extinction
and proposed idea of catastrophic extinction
catastrophic extinction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Abrupt and global changes cause
synchronous extinctions at a geological boundary, with few if any survivors
Thomas Malthus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1766-1834) Geometric increase in
populations and arithmetic increase in food supply
carrying capacity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the largest number of individuals that a
given environment can support
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1749-1829) orthogenesis,
evolution abides by natural law, complexity increases over time, logical
thinker about evolutionary mechanism - no one guides change
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Natural Selection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Evolution by variation and selective
retention
Morphology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an organism's size, shape, and composition
Stabilizing Selection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Selection required to change a
population and then keep it the same for future generations
species - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dynamic population of individuals
individual selection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔adaptation results from the
competition among individuals
continuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔grade slowly from one extreme to another
discontinuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔several distinct types exist with no
intermediates
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,convergence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔evolution of similar adaptations in unrelated
species
blending inheritence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mother and father contribute a
hereditary substance that mixes
Copernicus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1473-1543) Believed sun is center of the
universe
Galileo - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1564-1643) Use of quantitative experiments and
precise measurement
Newton - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1643-1727) Earth and other celestial beings
governed by same laws of nature - physics
Age of Exploration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Time period during the 15th and 16th
centuries when Europeans searched for new sources of wealth and for
easier trade routes to China and India. Resulted in the discovery of North
and South America by the Europeans.
Lyell - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1797-1875) British geologist who believed in
geographical uniformitarianism
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, Law of Uniformitarianism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that the same
processes we see occurring now also occurred in the past
Law of Stratigraphic Superposition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔sedimentary laters are
deposited in sequence, oldest on the bottom, youngest on the top
Georges Couvier - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1769-1832) French naturalist and
zoologist who compared fossils with living species. Established extinction
and proposed idea of catastrophic extinction
catastrophic extinction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Abrupt and global changes cause
synchronous extinctions at a geological boundary, with few if any survivors
Thomas Malthus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1766-1834) Geometric increase in
populations and arithmetic increase in food supply
carrying capacity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the largest number of individuals that a
given environment can support
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1749-1829) orthogenesis,
evolution abides by natural law, complexity increases over time, logical
thinker about evolutionary mechanism - no one guides change
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