Chapter 1

Question 1

physical anthropology

Answer 1

anthro concerned with human biology and evolution

Question 2

cultural anthropology

Answer 2

study of learned patterns of behavior and knowledge characteristics of society and of how they vary

Question 3

archeology

Answer 3

study of the past and current cultures through the analysis of artifacts and the context in which they are found

Question 4

linguistic anthropology

Answer 4

devoted to applying anthropological theory to practical problems

Question 5

empirical

Answer 5

received through the senses, either directly or through extensions of senses

Question 6

spontaneous generation

Answer 6

an old and incorrect idea that complex life-forms could be spontaneously created from non-living material

Question 7

immutable

Answer 7

unchanging

Question 8

Charles Lyell

Answer 8

Principles of Geology

Question 9

uniformitarianism

Answer 9

development of a credible evolutionary theory, physical forces such as wind, heat, cold, moving water, volcanism, and earthquakes

Question 10

strata

Answer 10

layers of the earth, sedimentary rock

Question 11

Charles Darwin

Answer 11

natural selection and evolution

Question 12

Alfred Russel Wallace

Answer 12

outlined the concept of natural selection (around same time as Darwin) sent him his papers. joint presentation

Question 13

creation-science

Answer 13

scientific evidence can be and has been gathered for creation as depicted in the Bible. discounted