What exactly is Physical Anthropology?

The branch of anthropology that deals with human evolutionary biology, physical variation, and classification

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Week 1 Assigment #2

1. I decided to go with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck because he has a very similar idea to darwins theory of nature.

2. Lamarck was a great guy and wrote many novels about his theory for others to learn about the science of which he believes.

 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html

3. Its not the individuals that evolve its the population. Meaning that individuals inherit everything the know from generations before. And they pass on the same traits but evolution doesn't occur with in a generations it happens between the generations. Lamarck said " Time and favorable conditions are the two principals. Darwins theory is shown in this that traits do pass over in time through generations.

4. I do believe that Darwin could have still developed his own theory without the help of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory. Darwin was a great man and had many other theorist that would of lead him to this theory.

5. The attitude of the churches didn't really affect Darwin because he has his own theory and that was what he was going to believe. The churches didn't want to except this theory because they didn't like the way it was being tough!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Student in Class


1. Hypothesis’s: Well my testable hypothesis with this student falling asleep in class is maybe this student isn’t getting enough sleep at night and is going out and partying late with friends.

2. Testing this hypothesis: I believe this hypothesis can be tested by having this student going out one night and staying out very late then going home and only getting a few hours of sleep. Then the next night have this student go to bed at a reasonable time say 9pm and see how they do the next day in class.  If the student doesn’t fall asleep in class it will show that the student got enough sleep and if the student still falls asleep that will show that it isn’t the lack of sleep that is making the student fall asleep. 

3. Un-testable hypothesis: A Un-testable hypothesis would be that the student is being put to sleep by the sleeping fairy that is making them sleep during this class.