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Anthropology - Answer-study of the interaction between evolutionary and cultural factors Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Biological - Answer-4 subfields of anthropology Paleoanthropology - Answer-The study of science concerned with fossils of animals and plants Science - Answer-Seek...

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Anthropology - Answer-study of the interaction between evolutionary and cultural factors

Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Biological - Answer-4 subfields of anthropology

Paleoanthropology - Answer-The study of science concerned with fossils of animals and
plants

Science - Answer-Seeks natural causal explanations for observe phenomenon

Falsifiability - Answer-can be proven false

open to rejection and can be replaced with new data - Answer-Why are scientific facts
provisional?

Hypothesis - Answer-statement that suggests a casual relationship between the events;
a proposed explanation; a guess about how something works

y doesn't occur - Answer-How to reject a hypothesis

Scientific Law - Answer-hypothesis have been tested so thoroughly that we have very
high confidence in them (never violated)

Scientific Theory - Answer-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 - Answer-How does the use of the word theory differ from its
contextual use in science and in everyday speech?

Scala Natural - Answer-ranks humans closest to the supernatural world

Aristotle - Answer-creator of the theory Scala Natural

Heliocentrism - Answer-having the sun as the center of the universe

Copernicus and Galilea - Answer-Discovered the Sun-centered universe

Ptolemy - Answer-believed in a earth centered universe

, Essentialism - Answer-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 - Answer-Founder of Essentialism

Variation is unimportant - Answer-Essentialist view on variation

they are composed of similar individuals sharing the same essence - Answer-Why are
Species Fixed?

Carolus Linnaeus - Answer-Father of Taxonomy and published "systema Natural"

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species - Answer-Taxonomy
Hierarchical- biggest to smallest

Teleology - Answer-the apparent perfect design of organisms- goal oriented- blue print-
world is in perfect harmony

Paley - Answer-Believed in Natural Theology and watchmakers metaphor

Natural Theology - Answer-Theory that God created everything to be in perfect harmony

Fixity of Species - Answer-species do not change

Archbishop Usher - Answer-believed in Earth was created in 4004 BC (young earth)

Charles Lyell - Answer-Author of "the principles of geology" and coined the term
uniformitarianism

uniformitarianism - Answer-geological processes at work today were at work in the past
based on fossils. Geological changes recorded in earths rock requires DEEP TIME

Lamarck, Cuvier, and E. Darwin - Answer-three early thinkers about evolutionary
change and the origination of life

Lamarck - Answer-coined the term Biology and the Inheritance of aquired traits

Inheritance of Acquired traits - Answer-vital essences sense need through use, change
the form and pass it on to the offspring

Cuvier - Answer-embraced extinction and believed in catastrophism

Catastrophism - Answer-different floods wiped out creation, followed by newer and
better creations. Theory based on fossils in rock layers

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