ANT 131 Midterm: Exam 1 Study Guide
4 Nov 2015
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These subfields concern all aspects of humanity across space and time. In taxonomy, the convention established by linnaeus whereby genus and species names are used to refer to species. The parts that continued to be used, perhaps in different ways, would change. Such changes would occur in respond to bodily. Needs fluids and forces would modify the structure making the animal better suited to live in the environment, thus passing these traits down to. 10. fixity of species: the notion that species, once related, can never change; an idea diametrically opposed to theories of biological evolution. He never grasped the dynamic idea of nature and insisted on the idea of fixity of species. Did not believe in evolutionary change, but catastrophism: the view that the earth"s geological landscape is the result of violent. 14. charles lyell: founder of modern geology who argued that the geological processes that we see today are the same as those in the past.
