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32 Cards in this Set
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Franz Boas |
"Father" of american anthropology cultural, linguistics, archeology, biological |
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Linguistics |
study of language and it's evolution and history |
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Archeology |
study the material remains of humans |
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Biological Anthropology |
study primates to understand humans study past and present |
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Paleoanthropology |
study of human evolution through fossils and artifacts |
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Primatology |
study of the diversity, behavior, ecology, and psychology of the living primates |
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Molecular Anthropology |
study of human and nonhuman primate evolution, biology, and adaptation using molecular techniques |
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Forensic Anthropology |
applying anthropology to the law |
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Great Chain of Being |
species are ordered hierarchal and the higher up you go, the closer you are to God
minerals> plants> animals> humans> supernatural |
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John Ray |
classified life on earth using the terms "species" and "genus" |
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Carolus Linnaeus |
binomial naminclature: scientific names for species using a generic and specific term used class, order, and kingdom to categorize |
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Georges du Buffon |
all species descend from one original species the world is old disagreed with himself because he was finding all of these scientific ideas but they contradicted his religion (christianity) |
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Georges Cuvier |
first to believe in catastrophism at the time people believed God made everything perfect, so why would he let his creations become extinct? |
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Catastrophism |
mass amounts of extinction due to major catastrophes |
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Uniformitarianism |
slow processes that change earth have always been occurring and always will occur examples: volcanos, rivers, erosion, etc. |
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Erasmus Darwin (Charles' grandfather) |
organic life began in the ocean knew that species changed but didn't know how |
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Thomas Malthus |
too many people leads to competition for food and resources |
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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck |
evolutionary change ideas were incorrect but he saw the important links |
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Charles Darwin |
naturalist studied finches in the galapagos islands |
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Darwin's finches |
13 different variations drought favored big beaks; el niño favored small beaks |
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Artificial Selection |
humans choose traits that they want to breed nature didn't naturally create all the dog breeds of today, humans did |
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Natural Selection |
nature chooses traits that are favorable strong, reproductive successful, etc will overcome and pass their traits on |
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Differential Reproductive Success |
producing more is favorable because it increases the proportion of the population with those traits |
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Microevolution |
gradual change of a population over time |
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Macroevolution |
the origin and extinction of a species |
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Alfred Wallace |
discovered natural selection at the same time as Darwin and presented their ideas to the scientific community together **watched video in class |
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"The Origin of Species" |
written by Charles Darwin in 1859 three main topics: evolution, natural selection, and phylogeny |
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Thomas Huxley |
"Darwin's Bulldog" wrote first book devoted to human evolution |
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Sexual Selection |
vary in ability to acquire mates if you are able to mate, you pass on your gene pool to the next generation |
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Intersexual Selection |
male to male competition |
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Intrasexual Selection |
female choice |
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Sexual Dimorphism |
differences among genders due to sexual selection |
