ant 101 nau exam 1 study guide solutions
Biological Anthropology - ANSWER-the study of the biological and bio-cultural facts of human and
their relatives.
Cultural Anthropology - ANSWER-the study of human culture in all its complexity.
Linguistic Anthropology - ANSWER-the study of language, its...
Hypothesis - ANSWER✔✔-a testable explanation for the observed facts
Holistic Approach - ANSWER✔✔-the practice of drawing on all sub-disciplines of anthropology as well as
other disciplines to attempt to answer questions about humans.
Comparative Approach - ANSWER✔✔-the practice of comparing features across
entities/cultures/organisms to elucidate similarities and differences.
Primatology - ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of primates.
Paleoanthropology - ANSWER✔✔-the study of fossil humans and human relatives.
Bioarchaeology - ANSWER✔✔-the study of the human biological component evident in the
archaeological record.
Forensic Anthropology - ANSWER✔✔-is the application of the science of physical or biological
anthropology to the legal process
Immutable - ANSWER✔✔-The idea that earth, people, animals, and plants are unchanging and due to
special creation.
Uniformitarianism - ANSWER✔✔-the doctrine that geological processes operating in the present have
also operated in the same way in the past and will do so in the future.
Catastrophism - ANSWER✔✔-the belief that great catastrophes regularly wipe out much of life on earth.
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