Famous Anthropologist and Evolutionists

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1. Who came up with the four fields of anthropology? Franz Boas Heraclitus Bronislaw Malinowski Embedocles

2. He was a cultural anthropologist who practiced enculturation in 1914 on the Trobriand Islands. Franz Boas Bronislaw Malinowski Jean Lamarck Lucretious

3. Who came up with the method of classification of life that we still use today? Charles Darwin Carolous Linnaeus Jean Lamarck Charles Lyell

4. Who came up with the idea of stratigraphy, deeper layers being the older layers? Thomas Malthus Jean Lamarck Charles Lyell Franz Boas

5. Who came up with the idea of "natural selection"? Robert Broom Carolous Linnaeous Charles Darwin George Cuvier

6. He wrote an essay on population stating that food supply increases at an arithmetic rate, and population increases at a geometric rate. Charles Darwin George Cuvier Theobosius Dobzhansky Thomas Malthus

7. Who demonstrated the structure of DNA? Jean Lamarck and George Cuvier Mark Currier and Ross Coven James Watson and Francis Crick Heraclitus and Embedocles

8. Who came up with population genetics, which is the scientific study of gene changes in animal populations? Charles Lyell Theobosius Dobzhansky Franz Boas Carl Johanson

9. He found a hominid skull at the Taung site in South Africa. The skull was an Australopithecus Africanus, which is thought to be on the direct line of human descent. Raymond Dart Robert Broom Sir Aurthur Keith Jean Lamarck

10. This man found a skull at the Krom Draai site in South Africa. It was heavier than the skull found at Taung. This species was called Australopithecus Robustus. Mary Leakey Raymond Dart Robert Broom L.S.B Leakey

11. Who went to the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and after 20 years, finally found a hominid skull? The species for this was Australopithecus Boisei. Michelle Brumete Richard Leakey Mary Leakey Raymond Dart

12. Who found another hominid skull, along with tools, at the Olduvai Gorge? The species for this skull is Homo Habilis. Richard Leakey LSB Leakey Halfshipman Carl Johanson

13. This person found another Homo Habilis skull along with a femur bone, the longest bone in the body, at East Lake Turkana in Kenya. Carl Johanson Robert Broom Halfshipman Richard Leakey

14. Who found a hominid skeleton in Hadar, Ethiopia? It was an Australopithecus Afarensis and was 40% complete. Raymond Dart LSB Leaky Robert Broom Donald Johanson

15. This person found a hominid skull in Central Chad during the 1990's. It was a Sahelanthropus Tchadensis and the oldest found so far. Michelle Brumete Carl Johanson Halfshipman Mary Leaky