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| An explaination of observed facts. |
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| A set of hypotheses that have been tested repeatedly and that have not been rejected. (This term is sometimes used in a different sense in social science literature.) |
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| Devolped the idea of natural selection to explain how organisms evolve over time by adapting to their environment. |
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| Naturalist who compiled one of the first formal taxonomies of all living organisms. |
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| The science of describing and classifying organisms. |
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| A group of populations whose members can interbreed naturally and produce fertile offspring. |
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| Groups of species with similar adaptations. |
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| The observation that the geologic processes that operate in the world today also operated in the past. |
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| A mechanism for evolutionary change favoring the survival and reproduction of some organisms over others because of their biological characteristics. |
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| The belief that God operates through the natural process of evolution. |
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| Intelligent Design Creationism |
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| The idea that the biological world was created by an intelligent entity and did not arise from natural processes. |
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| The science that investigates human biological and cultural variation and evolution. |
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| Behavior that is shared, learned, and socially transmitted. |
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| Studying humans in terms of the interaction between biology and culture in evolutionary adaptation. |
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| Integrating all aspects of existence in understanding human variation and evolution. |
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| The differences that exist among individuals or populations. |
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| Comparing human populations to determine common and unique behaviors or biological traits. |
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| Change in populations of organisms from one generation to the next. |
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| The process of successful interaction between a population and an environment. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that focuses on cultural variations in prehistoric (and some historic) populations by analyzing the culture's remains. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that focuses on the nature of human language, the relationship of language to culture, and the languages of nonliterate peoples. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that focuses on the biological evolution of humans and human ancestors, the relationship of humans to other organisms, and patterns of biological variation within and among human populations. Also referred to as physical anthropology. |
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