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Biological anthropology

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Studies humans as a biocultural species

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Cultural anthropology

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Focuses on human culutural behavior and cultural systems and the variation in cultural expression amoung humans

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Archaeology

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Studies the human cultural past and reconstruction of past cultural systems

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Linguistics

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Study of language

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Falsification

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the belief that for any hypothesis to have credence, it must be inherently disprovable before it can become accepted as a scientific hypothesis or theory.

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Continental drift

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the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.

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Inheritance of acquired characteristics

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Incorrect idea that adaptive traits are acquired during an organism's lifetime can be passed on to its offspring

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Blending inheritance

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Two organisms would mate and genes would blend into the offspring

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Statigraphy

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The study of the earth's layers or strata

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Uniformitarianism

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Idea that the earth was changed through a series of natural processes

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Cataprophism

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The earth was changed by global catastrophes

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Overreproduction

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Population is growing faster than food supply

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Natural selection

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Only the fittest survive, species that are forced to adapt to the environment and are able to reproduce successfully

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Particulate inheritance

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Idea that biologica traits are controlled by individual factors rather than by a single all encompassing hereditary agent

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DNA

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The molecule that carries the genetic code

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Alleles

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Different variations of a certain gene or trait

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Genotype

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The alleles possessed by an organism

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Genetic makeup

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Phenotype

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The chemical or physical results of the genetic code

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Homozygous

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Having two of the same alleles in a gene pair

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Heterozygous

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Having two different alleles in a gene pair

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Mitosis

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The process of cell division that results in two exact copies of the original cell

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Meiosis

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The process of cell division in which gametes are produced, each gamete having one half the mormal complement of chromosomes

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Chromosomes

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Strands of DNA in the nucleus of a cell

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Autosomes

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any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.

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Sex chromosomes

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a chromosome involved with determining the sex of an organism (X &Y)

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Sex linkage

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the condition in which a particular gene is located on a sex chromosome

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1912- all landmasses were connected together to form a supercontinent known as pangea

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Alfred wegner

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Calculated the age of earth based on the bible, 4004 bc (6,000 years)

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James Ussher

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Recognized Fossils were remains of creatures that had become extinct or still existed but in a different form

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Robert Hooke

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Suggested that the lower Layers of earth were from earlier (older) time and the higher layers were later (newer)

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Nicholas steno

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Statigraphy

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"The theory of the earth" believed that the earth was much older than 6,000 (uniformitarinism)

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James Hutton

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Created the first geological map of England

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William "strata" Smith

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"Principles of geology" (uniformitarinism)

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Charles Lyell

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Believed that catastrophism caused mass extinctions of species

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Georges Cuvier

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Believed that animals changed through the inheritance of acquired characteristics (created the word biology)

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Lamarck

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Believed in overreproduction

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Thomas Malthus

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Put the idea of natural selection, origin of species

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Charles Darwin

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Came up w/ the same idea of natural selection as Charles Darwin

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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Figured out how hereditary/inheritance really works

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Gregor Mendel

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was the first to convince the scientific mainstream that the Earth had once been hit by a planet sized body, creating both the moon and the Earth's 23.5° tilt.

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William K. Hartman

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the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953

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James watson and Francis Crick