ANTH 101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Hominini, Bone, Genetics
20 Nov 2018
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Intro to biological antrhopology and archaeology: anthropology: study of humans around world and through time. History of evolutionary thought: darwin"s answer: descent with modification through natural selection, contemporary answer: change gene frequencies between generations - this is modern day answer with out knowledge of genetics. Based on bible this is the only way for the species to be created. Based off the bible: nature = god = truth, believed till late 19th century, man who started to shift away from the natural theology phenomenon carolus. Linnaeus: he created the genus/species nomenclature and way of classifying organisms and relationships with one another. Artificial selection: when humans decided what trait we want and we make it happen by interbreeding, 3. Influence on lyell, a famous geologist: uniformitarianism, 4. Influenced by thomas malthus: mathus postulaten that population would grow faster than food supplies, struggle for survival, not everyone would survive to reproduce but some will reproduce more than other, 5.
