Ant 102 Test 1

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Anthropology

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The study of human culture and biology.

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Biological Anthropologists

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Study humans as animals in the past and in the present.

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Cultural Anthropolgists

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Study culture of humans as a species.

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Ethnographers and Ethnographies

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Study people in societies around the world. Information collected from these studies.

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Emic Persepective

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Insider's persective.

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Etic Perspective

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Outsider's Perspective

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Linguistics

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Studies development and changes of speech and language

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Archeologists

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Study past CULTURES THROUGH artifacts and their context.

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Applied Anthropology

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Using what we've learned to solve modern human problems.

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Paleoanthropology

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Study of fossils, artifacts, and their context.

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Holism

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Must study the past, present, biology, and culture of humans to fully understand them.

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Contingency

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Every population has evolved from a previous group

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Common Ancestry

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This is shared when two groups evolve from the same group.

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Common Ancestrial Group

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"Parent group" of evolving groups

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Homology

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Similarities caused by the common ancestrial group

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Analogy

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Similar functions, but no evolutionary relationship.

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Acenstrial VS Derived Traits

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Same traits
VS
Different traits

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Homonoid VS Homonid

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Superfamily of apes and humans
VS
Humans and thier bipedal acestors

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Last Common Acenster

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group that evolved from "parent group" into Humans (group 1) and chips, bonobose, and gorillas (group 2)

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Bio-uniformatarianism

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The causes of species's evolution are still causing species to evolve.

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First life

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first forms of life
Having a cell, living in water, and having the ability to change.

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Ediacara

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Probable common ancester of modern multicellular life.

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Cambrian explosioDn

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The time when all animal phyla lived in watery envirnoments

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Chengjiang Formation

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Earliest Cambrians fossils found in China

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Burgess Shale

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Deposits in the Canadian Rockies that contain the earliest phyla of animals including chodates.

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Tetrapod

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first lobe finned fish. (Beginnings of amphibians)

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Amniotes

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Vertibrates with internal membranes that enclose enclose embryos inside of eggs. First was reptiles

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Permian extinction

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First Mass Extinction
95% of land species lost

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Placental mammals

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Member of the the infraclass (named Eutheria) that includes placentals.

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Homeotheurms

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maintain body temperature
Example: Warm-Blooded

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Homodont VS Heterodont

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same function, different size
VS
Different function and size

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Theraspids

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Early group of mammal-like reptiles which are ancestors of later mammals

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Angiosperms

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Flower-bearing plants, the last plant category to evolve. 75 mil years ago

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K / T Mass Extinction

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2nd Mass Extinction
During the Cretaceous
50-60 of Life forms

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Deductictive VS Inductive Reasoning

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Form a Hypothesis then data to test it
VS
Gather information, then forms hypothesis

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Paradigm

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Perspective/ School of Thought

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Discontinuity VS Continuity

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Interuption of one group by extinction or movement
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Gradual changes

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Anthropometry

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Measurement of body parts used to compare populations.

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True Fossil

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Only bone or tooth. (Not casts, molds, or stains)

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Provenience

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3D location of artifacts in their matrix

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Postdepositional effects

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Alterations or movements to fossils after they have been deposited.

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Molecular Dating

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Using genetic analysis to estimate dates of evolution

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Ice Cores

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Samples of ice used to date envirnomental changes

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Marine Cores

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Samples of ocean floor sediments that contain shells and pollen

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Essentialism

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Belief of greek philosophers that everything was born perfect, thus needed no change. (Opposite of Evolution)

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Taxonomy

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Scientific Classification

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Acquired Charactistics

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Theory that traits acquired during the parents life time could be inherited by offspring.

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Mitosis VS Meiosis

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Body Cell Division

Sex Cell Division

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Structural VS Regulatory Genes

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Instructions for observable traits

Code for regulation of biological processes, such as growth and development

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Phyletic Gradualism

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Darwin's idea of the tempo of evolution being slow and gradual

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Punctuated Equilibrium

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Model of macroevolutionary change in which long periods of little change are followed by short bursts of rapid change.