ANT203H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rete Mirabile, Parapatric Speciation, Sympatric Speciation
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Anthropology = the study of humankind everywhere, throughout time; accounts for evolutionary and cultural factors. The four subfields: cultural anthropology linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology = study of human biology and culture within the framework of evolution. Science = the body of knowledge gained through observation & experimentation. The scientific method: make observations, develop questions, formulate hypotheses, generate testable predictions, gather data, refine, alter, expand, reject hypotheses, develop general theories, communicate results. Being which orders life from least perfect beings to perfect beings, in reality evolution created a tree of life with no order of complexity. Evolution = the change in the genetic structure of a population over time. History of evolutionary thought: carolus linnaeus (1707-1778) He helped us to understand patterns of relationship: comte de buffon (1707-1788) Wrote an essay on the principle of population. Inspired dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s idea o(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)petitio(cid:374: georges cuvier (1769-1832) Came up with catastrophism = all geological change is due to catastrophic events: jean-baptiste lamarck.