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38 Cards in this Set
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Anthropology
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Study of Humankind throughout time, study of behavior
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Physical anthropology
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Study of the origins of humans
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Archeology
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Study of humans through the material culture
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Linguistics
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Study of language forms across space and time and their relation to culture
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Cultural Anthropology
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Study of contemporary human cultures
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Paleontologists
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Evolution of humans
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Ethnography
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What cultural anthropologists do
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Ethical Obligations
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1.Respect the people their studying
2.People who fund the research 3.Peers |
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Culture is distributed in what way?
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1. Shared
2. Learned in groups 3. Culture composed of many elements |
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Buffon
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Wrote Natural History
Earth came from comet |
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Linnaeus
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Founder of the modern classification system
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Le Marc
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How species change and heriditary abduration
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Darwin's 3 rules
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1. Envionment selects those individuals best suited for survival
2. individuals less suited fail to reproduce 3. Traits favored by selection are passed onto the next generation |
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Darwin-origin of species
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1. All organism exhibit variability
2. All Organisms reproduce |
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Mindell
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monk-plants and DNA
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Cavae
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Elephant bones
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Microevolution
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change of species over time
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catastrophism
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explained change in terms of repeated natural catastrophies
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Gregory Mindell
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Cross genetics with plants
Early version of DNA |
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Law of Segregation
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only one of a pair of genes are passed off from parent to offspring
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Law of Independent Assortment
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every trait is inherited independently of every other traits
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Frame and Magnum
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Place in skull where your spinal chord attaches
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Raymond Dart
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Tung Skull
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who were the oustrolepithecines?
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First direct human descendents from Africa
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Explain the characteristics of oustrolepithecine
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1. Walked upright
2. Long arms/small stature 3. did not use tools |
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Lewis leeky
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found Lucy skeleton Ostrolepeithecine
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Dubrois
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found missing link between human ancestry in Asia
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Homosapiens characteristics?
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Larger Brain
Used tools |
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Homoerectus characteristics?
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1. hand tools-big jump in thinking
2. Evidence of fire |
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Homeoergaster characteristics
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1. Parabola jaw
2. Face Flatter/brain bigger |
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Neanderthals
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1. Sophisticated tools
2. Culture (Human Behavior) |
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willdendorf Venus Figurines
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found 30 scattered about Europe
Don't know what their about? |
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Modern charcteristics indicating behavior
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1. Deliberate burials
2. repeated association with tools |
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4 Factors that bring about Evolutionary Change in population
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1. Mutation
2. natural Selection 3. Gene flow 4. Gene Drift |
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Mutation
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random change in a genetic code
MUTATION IN SEX CELLS |
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Natural selection
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Filters for mutations
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Gene Flow
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population that moves you get gene flow
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Gene Drift
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Small population you get some selective advantage/disadvantage
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