Anthropology

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Anthropology

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The study of humankind in a cross-cultural context. Anthropology includes many other subfields.

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Biological Anthropology

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The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an evolutionary framework; sometimes called physical anthropology.

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Evolution

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A change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations

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Adaptation

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A trait that increases the reproductive success of an organism, produced by natural selection in the context of a particular environment

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Biocultural Anthropology

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The study of the interaction between biology and culture, which plays a role in most human traits

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Cultural Anthropology

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The study of human societies in a cross-cultural perspective.

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Archaeology

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The study of how people used to live, based on the materials, or artifacts, they left behind.

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Forensic Anthropology

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the study of the identification of skeletal remains and of the means by which the individual died, is a contemporary application of biological anthropology.

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Osteology

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The study of the skeleton.

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Paleoanthropology

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The study of the fossil record for humankind, and fossilized remains are the most direct physical evidence of human ancestry that we have to understand where we came from

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Primatology

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Study the anatomy, physiology, behavior, and genetics of both living and extinct monkeys, apes, and prosimians

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Christian Fundamentalism

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True Christianity was being violated by modernists

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Catastrophism

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Theory that there have been multiple creations interspersed by great natural disasters such as Noah's flood.

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Fertility

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The natural capability of producing offspring

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Fitness

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Reproductie Success

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Fixities of Species

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All species remained unchanged throughout the history of the earth

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Genome

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The sum total of all the genes carried by an individual

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Charles Darwin

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Came up with the evolutionary theory

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Natural Selection

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Differential reproductive success over multiple generations

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Reproductive Success

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Fitness

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Reproductively Isolated

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Any factor-behavioral, ecological, or anatomical- that prevents a male and female of two different species from hybridizing

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Selective Pressure

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Any cause that reduce reproductive success in a proportion of a population

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Taxonomy

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The science of biological classifications

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Uniform Tarianism

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The theory that all geological phenomena maybe explained as a result of existing forces

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Alfred Wallace

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Came up with the same theory as Darwin but w/o traveling