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Definitions for essential terms in anthropology, including anthropology itself, culture, biocultural approach, holistic, variation, comparative approach, evolution, adaptation, cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, hypothesis, theory, taxonomy, species, genus, uniformitarianism, natural selection, theistic evolution, and intelligent design creationism.
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the science that investigates human biological and cultural variation and evolution. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 behavior that is shared, learned, and socially transmitted. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 studying humans in terms of the interaction between biology and culture in evolutionary adaptation. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 integrating all aspects of existence in understanding human variation and evolution. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 the differences that exist among individuals or populations.
comparing human populations to determine common and unique behaviors or biological traits. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 change in populations of organisms from one generation to the next. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 the process of successful interaction between a population and an environment. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 the subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 the subfield of anthropology that focuses on cultural variations in prehistoric (and some historic) populations by analyzing the culture's remains.
a group of populations whose members can interbreed naturally and produce fertile offspring. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 groups of species with similar adaptations. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 the observation that the geologic processes that operate in the world today also operated in the past. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 a mechanism for evolutionary change favoring the survival and reproduction of some organisms over others because of their biological characteristics. TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 the belief that God operates through the natural process of evolution.
the idea that the biological world was created by an intelligent entity and did not arise from natural processes.