[ANTHRO 7] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (15 pages long!)
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Theory: give us the power to deduce hypotheses about a wide range of phenomena, tell us what to look for (what variables mean), post puzzles and suggest their solutions, serve as guides to empirical discoveries. Hypothesis: often based on theories, proposes causal relationships at a more abstract level, covering a wider range of phenomena (variables) Assumptions: statement accepted as true without evidence, can be testable. Data: subject"s answers to questions, obtained by conducting the same measurement on every item in a sample that"s representative of the population of interest. Inferences: conclusions made from the data (2) describe each of darwin"s postulates in a complete sentence. Describe why each postulate must hold for natural selection to occur (lecture: natural selection; pp. More adaptive traits will be inherited by future generations, which will increase the populations" fitness. 1 - (3) explain how the studies of changes in beak depth in medium ground finches (pp.
