ANTA01H3 Final: Anthropology Exam Review
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What is anthropology: anthropology is interested in the entire biological history of humans. >always studied a wide verity of cultures from around the world. > did not have a lot of potential, originally. > the beagle exposed him a lot of the biologically history of the land. >islands tend to be the sites of adaptive radiation without a very specialized starting point. >eventually evolves into a diversity of types, (ex the galapagoes) >virchow thought that this was a person with constant blows upon the skull. >now we no it is infact a close relative of ours. The problem of adaptation- a fit between an organism & its environment. Adaptation: a feature of an organism that increases the likelihood of its survival and reproduction in a particular environment. Adaptive radiation: the evolution of multiple divergent species from a single less specialized ancestral species. Niche: the role of a species in its environment ex darwin s finches.
