ANTH202 Midterm: ANTH202 Midterm Study Guide
1 Sep 2016
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Buffon (1707-1788) out there looking at nature and cataloged it recognized that there was changed. Cuvier (1769-1832) studied fossils in the paris bassin. Lamarck (1744-1829) discovered that there were fossils of animals that didn"t exist anymore. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species thought of them as fixed categories. Malthis (1766-1834) many more species are born than are able to survive frogs lay thusands of eggs many of the eggs break or are eaten. Accelerated radiocarbon/carbon 14 dating technology advances made the radiocarbon process more efficient so at this point not as much material needs to be grinded up and tested. Each year in the u. s. , at least 2 mil people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and 23,000 die. Bacteria not resistant to antibiotics die then the ones that do resist it reproduce described as one of the earliest ancestors of humans after they diverged from the main ape lineage.
