ANP 201 Final: Exam Review.docx
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We are the product of our evolutionary history (macro-scale of genetics) We are the product of our individual genetic makeup + environment. These are key theories behind physical anthropology research. How we know what we know: scientific theory, law, scientific method. 6 big events separating humans from animals: bipedalism 6 mya, nonhoning chewing 5. 5 mya, speech 2. 5 mya, material culture & tools 2. 5 mya, hunting (cooperative) 1 mya, domestication 11,000 ya. Darwin: proposed mechanism (differential reproduction) for descent, alfred wallace had come to the same conclusions, but darwin had the evidence, influenced by five areas. Hutton: calculated earth"s age as millions of years old. Hooke: fossils were organism"s remains, invented microscope (cell) Demography: malthus: principles of population, limited by food supply. Lamarck: inheritance of acquired characteristics: evolution by natural selection, survival of the fittest. Fittest is not physical strength: darwinian fitness=ability to survive and reproduce, natural selection.
