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What is Anthropology
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Study of man/culture, Holistic, comparative and field based.
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What are the different types of reasoning ?
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Deduction and Induction
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What is deduction ?
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General statements to specific
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What is induction
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specific statements to general
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What are some characteristics to Pseudoscience ?
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Hypothesis not falsifiable, Logical inconsistency, Conspiracy.
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What is the Holistic perspective in anthropology ?
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Takes into consideration all aspects of human life found throughout time past and present.
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What are the sources of evidence for evolution ?
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1.) Material observation
2.) Biological observation 3.)behavioral observation 4.)Direct communication 5.)Participant observation |
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What is Biblical Creation ?
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Based on biblical genealogies and vast knowledge of ancient history, no change throughout time
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What did Georges Cuvier figure out?
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He demonstrated that fossils are the remains of extinct species( did not believe in evolution)
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In 1801 what did Jean Baptiste Lamark learn ?
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Traits developed during life are passed to offspring( transformational evolution)
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In 1859 what did Darwin propose ?
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Natural selection as the mechanism of biological change through time( variational evolution)
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What did Gregor Mendel do in 1827-1884 ?
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Studied inheritence in experiments with peas over 7 years.
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What is inheritance made of ?
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Genes
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What is an Allele ?
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different versions of the same trait
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What is a Phenotype?
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Apperance
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What is a Genotype?
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Composition
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What are Polygenic traits ?
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Are controlled by several genes
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What are Pleiotrophy traits ?
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When one gene controls several traits.
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What are Complex Traits ?
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Demonstrate continuous variation, geographically described as clines.
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What are genes made up of ?
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DNA
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What is Independent assortment ?
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Over 8 million possible combinations of chromosomes in an individuals gametes.
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What is genetic variation ?
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New variation-mutation
within population = recombination,independent assortment or beetween population = gene flow , drift and flow effects. |
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What is Fitness ?
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Related to reproductive success and passed on to offspring and heritable.
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What is the micro evolutionary process ?
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Mutation->Gene Flow->Genetic Drift->Natural selection.
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What are the characteristics of culture ?
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Shared, Learned, Patterned, Symbolic.
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What are the elements of culture?
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Transmission, Reiteration, Innovation, selection/usefulness.
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What is Cultural relativism ?
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Cultural Logic, Not cultural determinism, Not approval, Individual agency, contradictory norms.
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What are the two types of classification systems ?
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Phenetics and Cladistics
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What is Phenetics ?
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Groups by overall phenotypes traits
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What is Cladistics ?
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groups by ancestors and decendent relationships
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What is Homology ?
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Same structure different function
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What is Analogy ?
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Different structure same function
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What is a Clade ?
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A grouping that includes a common ancestor and all of its descendents living and extinct.
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What Aboreal adaptation do primates have ?
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Generalized skeletal structure
Enhanced touch Binocular vision reduced smell |
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What parental investment do primates have ?
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Fewer offspring, longer development and birth intervals
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