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Human genetics |
The study of human traits that are inherited |
Traits |
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Epidemiology |
The study of how and why diseases affect different populations in different ways |
Diseases |
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Population biology |
The study of the interrelationships between population characteristics and environment. |
Environment |
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Ecofacts |
Type of physical remains found in natural environment - bones, woods, and seeds. |
Remains |
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Historical Archaeology |
Study of remains of recent people’s who left written records |
Record |
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Primatology |
Study our living relatives, apes monkeys, and prosimians in their natural environment. |
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Paleoanthropology |
Questions the emergence of humans and their later evolution. |
Evolution |
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Emic |
People’s view |
View |
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Ethnocentrism |
Ones belief that ones own culture is most desirable and superior to all others. |
The best |
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Anthropology |
Study of universality; humans; small scale societies. |
Humans |
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Artifacts |
Items from people in the past that been left behind |
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Culture trait |
Smallest unit of culture to be indentified |
Small |
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Culture complex |
Combination or related traits which makeup necessary requirements for a given object of activity |
Related traits |
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Culture pattern |
Combination of complexes which makeup a given category |
Complex |
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Random sample |
All individuals have an equal chance of being selected |
Random |
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Subculture |
Subsets of the wider mainstream that retain a certain level of cultural uniqueness that sets them apart |
Mainstream |
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Organic analogy |
Culture is systemic in a way similar to a living body made up of a number of systems that function together to maintain life |
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Ideal behavior |
Behavior strategy or techniques for survival |
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Direct constraints |
Official punishment for violating norms |
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Individual variation |
Possible range for any characteristics; physical or mental |
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Bell curve |
Graph of normal distribution with a large rounded peak |
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Globalization |
Development and proliferation of complex, interdependent international connections created through the movement of capital, natural resources |
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Ethnography |
Scientific description of the customs of individual people’s and culture |
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