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1. Who came up with the four fields of anthropology?
2. He was a cultural anthropologist who practiced enculturation in 1914 on the Trobriand Islands.
3. Who came up with the method of classification of life that we still use today?
4. Who came up with the idea of stratigraphy, deeper layers being the older layers?
5. Who came up with the idea of "natural selection"?
6. He wrote an essay on population stating that food supply increases at an arithmetic rate, and population increases at a geometric rate.
7. Which pair is traditionally credited with demonstrating the structure of DNA?
8. Who came up with population genetics, which is the scientific study of gene changes in animal populations?
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.
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.
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.
12. Who found another hominid skull, along with tools, at the Olduvai Gorge? The species for this skull is Homo Habilis.
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.
14. Who found a hominid skeleton in Hadar, Ethiopia? It was an Australopithecus Afarensis and was 40% complete.
15. In 2002, this person reported the discovery of a hominid skull in Central Chad during 2001. It was a Sahelanthropus Tchadensis and the oldest found so far.
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