After Reading This Chapter, You Should Be Able to Answer These Questions:
What are the main areas of interest in physical anthropology, and how does physical anthropology relate to the other subfields of anthropology? |
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What is meant by the term scientific thinking, and how does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? |
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Generally speaking, the average European before the fifteenth century viewed the world much differently than does a modern person employing scientific thinking. In what ways were earlier views of the world different from those of most people in the scientific community today? |
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What are the historical events mentioned in this chapter that led to the changing view of the world? Specifically, what were the contributions of Nicolaus Copernicus, Carolus Linnaeus, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Charles Lyell, William Smith, Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace? |
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What is the concept of intelligent design, and what are the arguments against it? |