Natural Selection
The three types of natural selection
What are directional, stabilizing, and disruptive
Shanidar I survived a number of debilitating injuries, which suggest he was valued for his ______, not his hunting prowess.
What is his wisdom?
The science of classifying organisms into different categories is
What is taxonomy.
Homoplasy can develop in the following ways
convergence, parallelism, and analogy
Individual living organisms were seen as transforming directly in response to their changing environments is attributed to which scientist.
Who is Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Natural selection is one of the processes that act to change the frequency of ___in a population
What are the frequencies of alleles
interested in the frequency and types of disease and injuries and the factors that influence their pattern of distribution
what is epidemiology
Classification of some class of phenomena based on cultural tradition
A slow process characterized by a transformation of one population into others is
Uniformitarianism is attributed to which scientist
Who is Charles Lyell
What is adaptive radiation?
a standard age based on the appearance of centers of ossification and fusion of growth plates
What is bone age?
A system of naming species that uses a double name
What is binomial nomenclature?
a shell and several internal membranes. It may have evolved as a method of protecting eggs in water.
What is the amniote egg?
Catastrophism is attributed to which scientist
homologies that encompass a larger group of species
What are shared ancestral traits?
application of the techniques of osteology and skeletal identification to legal problems
What is forensic anthropology?
a group of organisms at any level in a larger hierarchy
What is a taxon?
A tendency to find more heavily pigmented forms near the equator and lighter forms away from the equator
What is Gloger's rule?
Who was the first scientist responsible for classifying every kind of animal and plant, including people?
Shift in population that moves in a specific direction
What is directional selection?
The study of the processes of burial and fossilization.
What is taphonomy?
the evolutionary history of species
What is phylogeny?
Distributions of frequencies that show a systematic gradation over space
What is a cline?
creatures are ordered by degree of perfection, aka scala naturae
What is the Great Chain of Being?