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Hominidae bipedal and large-brained Hominids have been evolving for 6 million years Biological Anthropology is derived from human biology and primatology The Subfields of Bio Anthro Paleoanthropology, Skeletal Biology and Osteology, Paleopathology, and Forensic Anthropology Paleoanthropology the study of the fossil records of ancestral humans and their primate kin cultural anthropology includes ethnology, linguistics and archaeology the "Scopes Monkey Trial" took places in 1925 In the "Scopes Monkey Trial" John Scopes was accused of illegally teaching evolution in a small town in Tennessee In the Scientific Method, after the hypothesis is the observation In the Scientific Method, after the experiment is the hypothesis paradigm a conceptual framework useful for understanding a body of evidence The idea of the fixity of species was a norm in the the Middle Ages The rediscovering of the knowledge of the ancient Greeks, the first circumnavigation of the globe and the discovery of the New World occurred in the Renaissance polygenism ancient belief that people are derived from multiple creations monogenism belief that people are derived from a single creation Carlos Linnaeus created a comprehensive taxonomy taxonomy biological classification binomial nomenclature Liannaean naming system for all organisms, consisting of a genus and a species label Comte de Buffon observed that animals that migrate to new climates often change in response to their new environments Georges Cuvier opposed modern evolutionary theory for the concept of catastrophism catastrophism theory that there have been multiple creations interspersed by great natural disasters such as Noah's flood Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire strong advocate for evolutionary change- supported Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics lysenkoism soviet-era research program that tried to apply Lamarckism thinking to agricultural production James Hutton coined uniformitarianism uniformitarianism theory that the same geological processes we observe today was operating in the past Charles Darwin gentlemen naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle adaptive radiation the diversification of one founding species into multiple species and niches natural selection differential reproductive success over multiple generations Alfred Russel Wallace determined his own variation of evolutionary theory that paralleled Darwin's- but Darwin's went public first population interbreeding group of organisms mutation alteration in the DNA which may or may not alter function of a cell. If it occurs in a gamete, it may be passed on one generation to the next Origin of Species was published in ______ and immediately sold out 1859 creation science a creationist attempt to refute the evidence of evolution intelligent design a creationist school of thought that proposes that natural selection cannot account for the diversity and complexity of form and function seen in nature