Into and Evolutionary Thought

Question 1

ANTHROPOLOGY

Answer 1

study of humans

Question 2

THEORY OF EVOLUTION

Answer 2

• Change in inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations
• change over time
• Also incudes appearance of new species
• Occurs at all levels of biological organization (species, individuals, molecules)

Question 3

MICROEVOLUTION

Answer 3

small genetic changes that occur within a species

Question 4

MACROEVOLUTION

Answer 4

changes after many generations (e.g. speciation)

Question 5

PRE-DARWINIAN WESTERN WORLD VIEW

Answer 5

• Fixity of Species (Christianity)
• Great Chain of Being (Aristotle)
• Earth is young

Question 6

FIXITY OF SPECIES (CHRISTIANITY)

Answer 6

All life forms were created by God exactly as they exist in the present

Question 7

GREAT CHAIN OF BEING: ARISTOTLE

Answer 7

All life forms can be placed in a hierarchy from simple to complex with humans at the top

Question 8

EARTH IS YOUNG

Answer 8

Archbishop James Ussher (1581-1656) analyzed Genesis and estimated that the earth began Sunday, October 23, 4004 B.C.

• Used the Bible to calculate this

Question 9

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

Answer 9

• Change in how we think about the world and its inhabitants
• Development of the Scientific Methods (experimentation, make our own observations, measurements, and deduce information from them, set up conditions and watch what happens)
• Discovery of the New World (North and South America) challenged fundamental views about the planet (exposure to more biological diversity)

Question 10

BRANCHES OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Answer 10

• Linguistics
• Social-cultural
• Archeology
• Biological