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Agricultural Revolution
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end of the stone age civilization began
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Allen's rule
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rule that appendages tend to increase in size in warmer climates
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altruism
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giving and expecting nothing back
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artifical selection
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when humans artifically select the mates
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atlatl
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throwing spears or a form of
used by homo sapian sapian |
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Aurignacian
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stone tool technology used by homo sapians
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band soceities
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simlist social structure
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beer theory
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beer came first then bread
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bergmann's theory
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anmials from cold enviroments are bigger
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bering land bridge
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the intercontinental land connection appeared between Siberia and Alaska that appeared at least twice during the last ice age as a result of sea levels dropping
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animals with big brains
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dolphin
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canis l. familiaris
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dog EVOLVED FROM WOLF
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canis lupes
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grey wolf
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carrying capacity
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how much the enviroment can take
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cave art
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mainly for recording events
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chatelperronian
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neanderthral period or upper paleolithic
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chiefdom
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between tribe and state
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china
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one of the last primary states
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civilization
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requires argiculture cities math writing systems
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clovis
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a type of tool (oldest too in N. America)
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competitive exclusion
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two creaters competing for the same thing can't possibly co-exist, one will die
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circumscription
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enviromental barriers (mountains , and such) that prevent expansion
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diffusion
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most important factor in culture change
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corpus callosum
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women have bigger ones than men connects brain
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culture
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learned/ shared/ dynamic
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earliest domesticated animal
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dog
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earliest domesticated food
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pig
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endogamy
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marriage within social group
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enviromental determinism
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view that physical enviroment not social conditions defines culture
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exogamy
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marrying outside social group
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eve hypothesis
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we all evolved from the same woman, from a similar place
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Evolutionary psychology
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proposes that animal psychology can be better understood in light of evolution
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foragers, foraging
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band group, hunting and gathering
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genetic replacement model
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over time genetic material was changed and replaced
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holocene
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most recent time period
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homeostasis
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remaining stable the body
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homo sapian sapians
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thats us
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horticulture
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tribes do it (gardening)
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inka
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andes mountains
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incest
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when you marry some that is closer to you then your culture allows
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Indus Valley(Harappan civilization
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one of the earliest civilizations
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language isolates
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language that has developed by myself unlike others
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lithic
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pertaining to stone
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Magdalenian
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culture in upper paleolithic europe
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maize
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corn, one of the earliest domesticated plants
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manioc
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root crop major food crop in S America and Africa
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meme
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cultural information that is passed from one mind to another (found in the selfish gene)
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menarche
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first period
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mesolithic
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middle period stone age
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mesopotamia
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cradel of civilization
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microblades
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really small blades arrowheads
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minoan civilization
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an advanced broze age culture in crete
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multiregional model
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* There is only 1 migration out of Africa
* All modern races of humans have evolved in situ and are directly or indirectly decended from H. erectus |
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myelination
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the forming of the gray stuff around nerve endings
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neocortex
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the back part of the neocortex and the most recently developed part of the brain
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Neolithic
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late stone age, beginning of farming, domestication of animals, manufacture of textiles and pottery
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New World
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anything not connected to europe, south america north america canada
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Nuclear DNA
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passed on sexually rather than maternally
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Olmec
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artwork (big heads, african features)
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Paleo-Indian
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prehistoric human culture, distingished by the projectile points they made
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partial replacement model
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compromises between the two major defining models
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pastoralism
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a social and economic style based on farming
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Pleistocene Megafauna
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term used to describe the larger species of animals living in the paleolithic
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polymorphism
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the existance of two or more forms o animals species
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polyandry
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one woman multiple men
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polymorphism
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the concept that genes appear in many forms
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population replacement model
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where the one guys replaced the neanderthals?
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primary states 6
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china, egypt, mesapotamia, indus river valley,peru, mesoamerica
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projectile points
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This is the term archeologists use for arrowheads and spear points
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prostate
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cheifdom
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reciprocity
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people's informal
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reductionism
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reduce something to its simplest form
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sedentary
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doesn't move
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senesscence
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aging
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Shang Dynasty
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first dynasty
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social allegory
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The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. REASON FOR THE CAVES
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sociobiology
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The study of the biological determinants of social behavior
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solutrean
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Of or relating to the Old World Upper Paleolithic culture that succeeded the Aurignacian and was characterized by new stone implements and stylized symbolic forms of art.
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state collapse and causes
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they all collapsed
natural disaster, conquest, enviromental destruction |
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symbiosis
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a mutuallly dependant relationship
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stone tool technology
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first used by homo habilis and homo ertctus
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three sisters
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maize, sqaush, beans (n/s america)
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upper paleolithic
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more advanced civilizations for early humans
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vasodilation
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blood vessels get bigger if you are healthy
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venus figurines
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umbrella term for a number of prehistoric items, mostly in statuette form, of obese or heavily pregnant women from the Aurignacian or Gravettian period of the upper Palaeolithic, found in Europe
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robotic limbs
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connected through the top of the head can turn off lights and answer phone
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civilian deaths in Iraq
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10,000 collateral damage
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where was the worlds first skyscraper
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Hong kong
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hong kong skyscrapers
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7,506
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New york sky scraper
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5,466
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Out of all the scientists ever how many are alive today
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90%
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human knowledge doubles every __ years
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5
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Homo Sapians settled in India ______ years before they settled in Europe
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10,000
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When was Thanksgiving first declare a legal holiday?
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1941
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Who was the first to declare a day of thanks
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George Washington
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was the first crop
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tobacco
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peanut death thing
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kiss
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It took ____ years for human knowledge to double (the first time)
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760
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