The Anthropology of Civilization Flashcards

The flashcards below are perfect for an anthropology of civilization revision or review. People have lived in groups for a long time, and they now have different cultures that they identify. By reading the flashcards, you will get to know some of the people that contributed to the study of man and his behavior based on culture or environment. All the best!

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The history of the study of human variation is divided into 3 phases; they inlude the Greco- Roman period, the 18th and 19th centuries and...
The renaissance
Individuals, like Herodotus, Hippocrates, and Homer, credited with recognizing human variation, in the biological and cultural sense, came from which of the "phases" of human variation study?
The Greco Roman
The naturalistic approach, like that used by Leonardo Da Vinci to understanding human differences was during which phase of human variation study?
The Renaissance
A scheme for understanding the order of things in nature, including the placement of humans below the angels and God, but above animals. the plants, and minerals is traditionally known as...
The great chain of being
The first person to create a taxonomy of living creatures and placement of humans in the Order primates was...
Carolus Linnaeus
The individual that believed physical traits could be acquired within a lifetime and passed on to their offspring, also known as the theory of acquired characteristics, was....
Jean Baptiste La Marack
The first individual who suggested changes in an organism over time create the differences we observe, and called it natural selection...
Charles Darwin
The phrase "Survival of the fittest", used by Darwin in his writings, was actually borrowed from....
None of these
Organisms that are K-selected give birth
To one or more offspring at a time
Organisms that are R-selected give birth
To many offspring at a time
Defining primate adaptations/ traits include all of the following except
Altruistic offspring
Defining primate adaptations/ traits include all of the following except
Hairlessness
The four great apes are
Orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorrilas
The closest genetic "Cousin" of the human species is the chimpanzee and the
Bonobo
Anthropometry is the study of
Body measurements