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When scientists speak of evolution as a theory, this is what they mean:

This English lawyer and geologist was the first to provide strong conclusive evidence for the theory of uniformitarianism, which follows that the earth must be very old and that it has been subject to the same sort of natural processes in the past that operate today in shaping the land.

In 1859, Charles Darwin published ____________.

The most likely explanation for the existence of Australia’s, New Zealand’s, and Hawaii’s mostly unique biotic environments is that the life forms in these areas have been evolving in isolation from the rest of the world for millions of years. This is an example of:

A linguist studying the American Samoa language determined that the letters t and k can be interchanged in words without changing the meaning. What type of linguist would this be?

In the past anthropologists tried to cover as many subjects as possible, but today many anthropologists __________.

The genetic makeup of a pea plant is called its __________.

Migration, or genes being transferred from one population to another, is an example of this:

Today, more than half of all professional anthropologists are __________.

Applied anthropologists practice __________.