Across
- 4. The study of the layering of the earth’s sediments
- 5. A verifiable, observable truth
- 6. Predominant ways of thinking about ideas
- 8. The study of fossil humans and fossil relatives
- 9. Having the set of heritable traits that are best suited to existing and reproducing in a given environment
- 10. The practice of drawing on all subdisciplines of anthropology, as well as other disciplines, to attempt to answer questions about humans (2 words)
- 14. Layers of the earth
- 15. A testable explanation for the observed facts
- 18. The study of human culture in all of its complexity (2 words)
- 21. The comparative study of many cultures
- 22. success A measure of the number of surviving offspring an organism has
- 23. Capable of being passed to offspring biologically (through reproduction)
- 24. Habitat or ecological role filled by an organism; the way in which an organism “makes a living”
- 26. The doctrine that geological processes operating in the present have also operated in the past and will do so in the future
Down
- 1. Taking control of information presented to you and examining it (2 words)
- 2. A set of supported hypotheses
- 3. Material evidence of past life on this planet
- 7. Naming and classification of organisms based on morphological similarities and differences
- 11. Patterns of behavior human societies exhibit in their families, relationships, laws, moral codes, songs, art, business, and everyday interactions
- 12. The focused study of a specific culture or aspects of a culture
- 13. Researcher who studies primates
- 16. Interrelationships between living organisms and their environments
- 17. Mammalian order to which humans belong
- 19. The study of language, its structure, function, and evolution (2 words)
- 20. Process by which the better fit variants in a population become overrepresented over time (2 words)
- 25. Economy in explanation; the least complex path