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Taxonomy
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Anthropology
12th Grade
11/05/2009

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Carolus Linnaeus:
Definition

-Classifications system for living things.

-Relationship between living organisms. 

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Comte de Buffon
Definition

-Similar species come from common ancestors.

-Separate Creation

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William "Strata" Smith:
Definition

-Fossils were found on different levels

-Exploding rock to find answers

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George Cuvier:
Definition

-Catastrophism theory

ex) The great flood

biblical explanations

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James Hutton:
Definition

-Rocks were built up by slow accumulation through natural processes

 

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Charles Lyell:
Definition

-Theory of uniformitarianism

-Greatly influenced Darwin 

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Alfred Wallace:
Definition

-Studied Beetles

-Variety of Evolution

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Charles Darwin:
Definition

-Survival of the fittest

-Man is an animal

 

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Haeckel:
Definition
"The natural history of creation"
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Kingdom:
Definition

ANIMALIA

-Organisms that move and intake food

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Phylum:
Definition

CHORDATA

-Spinal cord and backbone

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Class:
Definition

MAMMALIA

-Live in birth

-Warm Blooded

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Order:
Definition

PRIMATE

-Opposable Thumb

-Binocular Vision 

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Family:
Definition

HOMINID

-Ground Dwelling Biceps

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Genus:
Definition

HOMO

-Rely on culture not biological adaption

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Species:
Definition

SAPIENS

-Modern sized brain

-Small faces

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HOMINID
Definition

-Ground Dwelling

-Bipedal

-Food Sharing

-Enlarging Brain

-Multiple infant care

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PONGID
Definition

-Not Bipedal

-Not food Sharing

-Single infant care

-Not enlarging brain

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"Turkana Boy"
Definition

Founded by Richard Leakey

A complete Homo Erectus 

Term
"Great Rift Valley"
Definition
Oldest fossil hominid discovered
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