Complete the following sections in the spaces below:
First and Last Name:
John Doe
Date:
September 17, 2015
Title of Assigned Readings (including chapter numbers) or Videos:
Chapter 1 – Encountering the Past
Chapter 2 –Probing the Past
Chapter 3 – African Roots
Reflections:
I haven’t really thought much about how we know how old things are, and how old the earth is. I found it interesting to learn about how old our most remote ancestors are – millions of year old!
Emerging questions/analyses:
What is the process of natural selection, and how does it work?
Why would it be important to have multiple dating techniques?
Important concepts:
The anthropological perspective – Anthropology is the study of people that is both holistic and integrative. Ethnographers are anthropologists who live with a group of people and study them, and often compare them to other cultures. This is known as ethnology.
Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolution through natural selection. Evolution is defined as change through time. Species that have characteristics that improve their chance of survival will pass those characteristics on to their offspring (being faster, stronger, more dexterous). A slow and steady accumulation of characteristics that make a species more adapted results in an entirely new species.
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