This refers to a primate behavior where primates are only active at night.
What is nocturnal?
100
This an belief that natural disasters, such as floods, are responsible for the extinction of species.
What is catastrophism?
100
This studies human nature, human society, and and the human past.
What is anthropology?
100
This is the history of the life of an informant.
What is a life-history?
200
Selectively cross-breed pea plants over many generations.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
This kind of chimp is known for its use of tools.
What is a chimpanzee (Pan troglodyte)?
200
Those individuals whose variant traits better equip them to compete with other members of their species for limited resources are more likely to survive and reproduce than individuals who lack such traits, they have this.
What is fitness?
200
These are sets of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society.
What is culture?
200
This is the systematic description of a culture based on first hand observation. It involves doing fieldwork and gathering data to eventually be presented in a book or article.
What is ethnography?
300
Honeymoon,
Crisis,
Adjustment,
Adaptation
What are the four stages of culture shock?
300
New World Monkeys,
Old World Monkeys,
apes,
humans
What are anthropoids?
300
This is a historically popular idea which believed that their exists a single hierarchy of all organisms. each differing slightly from the ones above it and below it.
What is The Great Chain of Being?
300
This kind of study examines how ALL factors influence a subject.
What is a holistic study?
300
This makes an effort to understand the practices of other cultures from the point of view of those cultures and not your own.
What is cultural relativism?
400
This is the subfield of evolutionary studies that devotes attention to short-term evolutionary changes.
What is microevolution?
400
The presence of five digits on the hands and feet is reflective of this.
What is an ancestral characteristic of primates?
400
This principle originally discussed by Mendel states that an individual receives one particle (gene) for each trait from each parent.
What is the principle of segregation?
400
Archaeology,
Linguistics,
Cultural Anthropology,
Biological Anthropology
What are the four traditional subfields of anthropology?
400
This is the outsider's point of view of a particular culture.
What is an etic perspective.
500
This person believed that environmental changes cause some members of a species to rely more heavily on some organs than on others. Those organs that you rely more heavily upon will become enhanced and those that you do not use as much will be reduced.
Who is Jean Babtiste de Monet de Lamarck?
500
This is when biological organism are classified according to evolutionary relatedness alone.