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18 Cards in this Set
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Adaptation
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Change in response to environmental chalenges
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Anthropology
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the study of all aspects of the human expierience
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archaeology
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the study of the patterns of behavior and the material record of humans who lived in the past
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biological anthroplogy
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the study of biological and and biocultural facets of humans and their reletives
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catastrophism
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the belief that great catstrophies regularly wipe out much of the life on earth
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comparitive approach
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the practice of comparing features across entities/cultures/organism to elucidate similarities and differences
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Cultural anthropology
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the study of human culture in all of its complexity
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culture
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patterns of behavior human societies exibit in their families, relationshgips, religions, laws, and moral codes , songs, art, business, and everyday interaction
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ecology
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interrelationships beween living organisms and thier environments
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ethnography
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the focused study of a culture or aspects of a culture
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ethnology
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the comparitive study of many cultures
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fit
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having the set of heritable traits that are best suited to existing and reproducing in a given environment
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holistic approach
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the practice of drawing on all subdisiplines of anthroplogy, as well as other disiplines, to attempt to asnwer questions about humans
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natural selection
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process by which the better fit variants in apopulation become over represented over time
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paleoanthroplogy
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study of fossil humans anbd human reletives
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paradigm
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predominant way of thinking about ideas
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parsimony
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economy in explanation; the least complex way of explanation
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uniformitarianism
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the doctorine that geological processes operating in the present have also operated in the same way in the past and will do so in the future
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