Exam 1: Encountering the Past

Ethnographers study:

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is known as:

The statement "The operations of nature are equable and steady" reflects:

What was the challenge faced by catastrophists who based their study of nature on empirical observation?

Culture is viewed as:

Catastrophists were thinkers who believed that the Earth:

The organizing theme of the approach taken in this book to the human past is:

Why is primatology part of the study of the human species?

Bishop Ussher is best known for his:

What did John Frere discover at Hoxne, England, in 1797? What were the implications of what he found and described?

Is there any evidence that catastrophic events, some the result of extraterrestrial bodies crashing into Earth, have greatly affected the history of our planet? Examples?

Describe Darwin's mechanism for evolutionary change: natural selection.

An adaptation is:

Evolution is defined as:

Bishop Ussher's determination of the age of the earth was historically significant because:

The flint implements found by Boucher de Perthes were dated on the basis of:

How did the finches of the Galapagos Islands contribute to Darwin's view of evolutionary change?

Paleoanthropology and archaeology are subfields within the broader discipline of:

James Hutton was an early:

French customs official Jacques Boucher de Perthes thought that the hundreds of flint tools he found in his excavations in the high gravel terrace overlooking the River Somme in northern France dated to: