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adapton
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behavior response
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anthropology
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studies human
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anthropometry
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measure of human body parts
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bicultural evolution
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interactive evolution of human biology and culture
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continuum
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a set of relationships in which all components fall along a singl integrated spectrum ex: color
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dna
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molecule genetic code
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empirical
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relying on experiment or observation
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ethnocentric
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viewing other cultures with a bias attitude
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ethnographies
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descriptive studies of human behavior
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evolution
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a change of genetic structure in population
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forensic anthropology
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approach dealing with legal matters
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genetics
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gene structue ... study
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metabolism
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cells that break down nutrients and release energy for the body to use
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microevolution
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small changes occuring within species
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macroevolution
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changes produced after many generations... such as new species
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osteology
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the sudy os skeletal material
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paleoanthropology
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the interdisciplinary t study hominins (physical structure)
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paleopathology
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the study o disease and ijury in human skeletal or remains
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primates
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monkey. ect
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primatology
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study of non-human primates
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quantitatively
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pertaining to measurnments... size number capacity
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relativistic
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viewing entitiesas they relate to somthing else
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savana
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a large flat grassland
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scientific method
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an approach to research whereby a problem is identified
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scientific testing
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reptition of an experiment
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species
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organisms that can interbbreed
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therory
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scientific principles
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fertility
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ability to have a baby
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natural selction
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the most critical mechanism of evolutionary change
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taxonomy
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the branch of science concerned with the rules of classifying organisims
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catastroophis
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geological landscape is due to violent events
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unifomitarianism
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earth features are result of long-term proceses that continue to operate in the present as it did in the past
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reproductively isolated
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genetic differences un able to mate
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reproductive success
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offspring produced and grow to adults
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selective pressures
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forces in the environment that influence reproductive sucess
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fitness
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natural selection reproductive sucess
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biological continuity
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when expressions of a phenomenon continuously grade into one another
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genome
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the entire genetic makeup of an individual.
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