Lyell - Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

Linnaeus - Binomial nomenclature Darwin - Fossils, strata Cuvier - catastrophic events caused extinction Hutton and Lyell - Gradualism, earth is OLD Lamarck - Use it or lose it, we get bigger and better, Adaptations - Inherited characteristics that enhance survival and reproduction Descent with Modification - Common ancestor (unity in life) aka evolution

Anthropology Final Exam Review Questions with Complete Solutions Biological (Physical) anthropologists study... - Correct Answer All choices are correct - genetics of ancient human pop's - fossil record for human evolution - behavior of monkeys and apes - genetics of living human pop's Darwin was unable to account for... - Correct Answer the origin of variation Darwin was not the only person to develop the idea of natural selection. Who was the other person? - Correct Answer Alfred ...

Frenchman responsible for the belief that organisms could inherit acquired characteristics Ans- Jean Baptiste de Lamark Time Spirit Ans- Zeitgeist Effect caused when a natural disaster results in a few individuals remaining in a population with different allele frequencies by chance Ans- Bottleneck effect Author of "Principles of Geology"; a book that would have an important influence on Darwin Ans- Sir Charles Lyell He failed to become a doctor and a minister, but went on to rev...

Biological Anthropology Questions and Answers Already Passed What is Anthropology? Anthropology is the comprehensive study of human beings, encompassing their historical and current biological, cultural, and linguistic aspects. What does Biological Anthropology involve? Biological Anthropology is a field that combines various disciplines and explores the historical development of human biology and behavior. How is Evolution defined? Evolution is a concept that describes the...

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Bio 182 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following would be an example of convergent evolution? A. Hummingbird Bill sizes change in the shape to easily fit into flowers B. Competition among finches of Galapagos islands causing speciation C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and South America both developing long narrow skulls D. Maple trees migrating northward after glaciers started to recede in North America - Answer-C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and ...

Biogeography Analogous structures - Structures that look the same, but not because they shared a common ancestor homologous structures - Structures that look the same because they did share a common ancestor James Hutton - Geologist that believed in deep time (meaning the earth is super old). Charles Lyell - Believed earth of 4.6 billion years old Got idea from James Hutton Carl Linnaeus - Created binomial nomenclature Alfred Wallace - English contemporary to Darwin Published his resea...

Lamarck proposed ~ a mechanisms for evolution through the idea of acquired characteristics, which is incorrect Malthus suggested that ~ war, famine, and disease were necessary to keep populations from growing too large Lyell described ~ the Earth as having forces that cause change that occurred in the past and still occurring today Darwin proposed that ~ natural selection as mechanism for how evolution occurs suggesting that the environment selects those alleles best suite...

convergent evolution - unrelated or distantly related organisms evolve similar body forms, coloration, organs, and adaptations natural selection - the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring (acts on individuals but populations evolve) Judeo- Christian perspective - The Creator: God made everything Linnaeus - Binomial nomenclature and nested classification system Cuvier - fossils in strata- catastrophism Hutton and Lyell - g...

Which of the following statements best describes theories? A) They are nearly the same things as hypotheses. B) They are supported by, and make sense of, many observations. C) They cannot be tested because the described events occurred only once. D) They are predictions of future events. - ANSWER B) They are supported by, and make sense of, many observations. Catastrophism, meaning the regular occurrence of geological or meteorological disturbances (catastrophes), was Cuvier's attem...