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ANTH 170 Exam 1 University of OregonExam Questions and Answers (latest
Update 2025)
European world view prior to scientific revolution - Correct Answer ✅
based on religious dogma of the time, mainly Catholicism as well as the
writings of the greeks
what is the age of discovery - Correct Answer ✅ Europe becomes aware of
the rest of the world, earth is round, there is description and cataloging of
new found diversity
Copernicus - Correct Answer ✅ heliocentric universe, stars are much
further away than the sun and the rotation of the earth explains their motion
Galileo - Correct Answer ✅ built and refined telescopes, disproved
geocentric theory by studying Jupiter's satellites
Vesalius - Correct Answer ✅ wrote the first human anatomy text based on
direct observation of cadavers
Linnaeus - Correct Answer ✅ binomial nomenclature for organisms (ex.
homo sapiens, gorilla gorilla), his system of classification became the basis
of our present day taxonomy
Buffon - Correct Answer ✅ organic change is possible, animals move to
new environments and are changed/influenced by climate
Cuvier - Correct Answer ✅ father of comparative anatomy, proponent for
the fixity of species and opponent of species change, catastrophism as the
explanation for all extinction
Smith - Correct Answer ✅ principle of faunal succession
, ANTH 170 Exam 1 University of Oregon
Exam Questions and Answers (latest
Update 2025)
Malthus - Correct Answer ✅ the lack of sufficient food and water will
always be a constant source of misery for humans if our numbers continue to
increase
Lamarck - Correct Answer ✅ 1st comprehensive theory of evolution,
inheritance of acquired characteristics *theory of use and disuse of parts:
animals/organisms will use certain characteristics/parts more than other
parts in order to survive, thus improved development would be inherited by
offspring
Lyell - Correct Answer ✅ founder of modern geology, stated that the
geological processes we see today also existed long long ago
(uniformitarianism)
DARWIN YO - Correct Answer ✅ wrote the Origin of Species, thought of
natural selection i think
natural selection - Correct Answer ✅ -all species have an infinite ability to
expand their pop #
-natural populations fluctuate but tend towards constancy
-all species are variable
-some variations are beneficial
-advantageous traits increase in frequency over several generations
Wallace - Correct Answer ✅ co-discoverer of natural selection; traveled to
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