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Anthropology is interested in all aspects of what it means to be human

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Past, present and future

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What’s is Anthropology

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A social science, humanistic, and a scientific discipline

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What refers to the process whereby members of a society acquire the characteristics of a given culture, learning it’s language and generally acquiring competence?

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Participant observation

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How does Edward Burnett Taylor describe Culture?

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As that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities of a society.

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An area of linguistic research that investigates the structure of language patterns (ex: grammar, vocabulary, and meanings) as they exist within a culture.

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Descriptive linguistics

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Why is culture more flexible than biology?

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Because it is not based upon genetics and physiology, consists of learned patterns of behavior and ideas, and relies on a complex communication system.

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The tendency to judge the customs, morals, values, or institutions of another society or culture as inferior to that of your own society or culture.

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Ethnocentrism

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Refers to the theories, methods, and problems that characterizes a particular discipline at a particular point in time and space.

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Paradigm

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The subdiscipline of anthropology that uses the data gathered from the other subfields in order to find practical solutions to problems faced by a social group, society or culture.

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Applied anthropology

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The subdiscipline of anthropology that focuses on the study of communication and language.

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Linguistic

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The subdiscipline of anthropology that focuses on the study of primate fossils, human or non human genetics and behavior within an evolutionary framework

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Biological/physical anthropology

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The subdiscipline of anthropology that focuses on the study of various aspects of contemporary societies of cultures.

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Cultural and linguistic anthropology

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The systematic study of language use in various social settings in order to explore the links between language and various contexts of social and/or cultural behavior.

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Sociolinguistics

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The comparison and classification of different languages to explore the evolutionary relationships among them.

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Historical linguistics

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Refers to the comparative approach over time (short duration) and space childbearing practices over 2 to 3 generations in a single culture

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Synchronic

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Refers to a comparative approach over time (long duration) and space (the development of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle East and the evolution of cities and urban life)

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Diachronic

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The study of non-human primates is of special interest to which subdiscipline of anthropology?

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Biological anthropology

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What can be components, or part of the practice, of cultural anthropology?

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Enthnography, Ethnology, and linguistic anthropology

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The remains such as bones, carbonized seed, shell and soil, of ancient life and can provide the archeologist with info on past environments?

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Ecofacts

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The ability to view the customs, values, morals, and institutions of other peoples within the context of other culture rather than ones own.

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Cultural relativism

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Anything made, modified or used by a human (ex: projectile points, pottery, baskets, textiles)

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Artifacts

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Non portable aspects or byproducts of human behavior (ex:burials, hearths, stone pits)

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Features

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A location of past human behavior that has resulted in a concentration of material remains

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Site

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A method of cultural and linguistic anthropological fieldwork in which the anthropologist lives for an extended period of time among the subjects of his or her study.

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Participant observation

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The study of individual or parts of a culture (ex: community, village, neighborhood)

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Ethnography

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The accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems.

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Globalization

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Which are the mechanisms of cultural change?

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Diffusion, independent invention and globalization

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American individualism, American work ethic, Gold Star Chili and White Castle Hamburgers are examples of what?

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Mechanisms of Cultural Particularities

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A concept of “family”, marriage, some form of “religion” or religious belief system and the incest taboo is an example of what?

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Cultural universal

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Cultural Resource Management, Medical anthropology, and forensic genetics are examples of what?

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Applied Anthropology

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How do we learn our culture? (American Dream)

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enculturation and socialization

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What are the characteristics of culture?

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Shared, Symbolic, and learned

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Which of the following is a characteristic of culture?

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All encompassing or holistic, integrated, and can be either mal-Adaptive or adaptive depending upon the circumstances.

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What is the comparative, cross-cultural, study of human society and culture? (ex: South Asia, Middle East, Caribbean)

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Ethnology

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What is the term for the identification with, and feeling part of, a cultural tradition and exclusion from other cultural traditions?

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Ethnicity

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What is it called when claimed or perceived identity varies depending on the audience or cultural context?

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Situational negotiation of identity

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What is “Race”?

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A cultural (or social) construction.

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What hypothesis was inferred because there was a post-Pleistocene drying of the environment which led to the concentration of people, animals, and plants at permanent water sources?

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Oasis Hypothesis

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What hypothesis was inferred due to as the population grew at the end of the Pleistocene, human groups expanded into less than optimal habitats according to Lewis R. Binford and Kent V. Flannery?

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Marginal Habitat Hypothesis

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What was the first animal domesticated in the Old World?

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The dog

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During what period in the Old World did the domestication of plants and animals primarily occur?

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Neolithic Period

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What studies the relationship between social class and linguistic variation?

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Sociolinguistics

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What does the pattern of long periods of species stasis followed by the rapid development of new species is referred to as?

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Punctuated equilibrium model of evolution

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What is the pattern of a slow and steady transformation of one species into a new species is referred to as?

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The Phyletic Gradualism model of evolution.

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A condition caused by an excess of Vitamin D

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Hypervitamosis D

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A condition created by a diminished supply of oxygen to the body tissues

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hypoxia

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The single primary cause of skin tone

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Melanin

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What was the first hominin/hominid to migrate out of Africa to Europe?

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Homo erectus/homo ergaster

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What species was able to produce and control camp fires?

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Homo erectus/homo ergaster

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Where did Homo sapiens evolve first?

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Africa

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Who was the first hominin/hominid to care for the sick in Europe/Middle East was?

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homo Neanderthals/thalensis

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The first homin to up bury the dead was?

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Homo neander and Homo sapiens

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The first hominin to wear tailored skin clothing was?

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Homo neanderthals

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Why are humans considered primates?

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Because we are social living and are more like non-human primates than other mammals.

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What mechanism for social interaction and socialization is important among non human primates?

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Mother-infant/child bearing

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Which primate has a prehensile tail?

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New World Spider monkeys

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Which are the most primitive nonhuman primates?

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Prosimians

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Which primate is characterized by knuckle walking?

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Chimps and Gorillas

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Who habitually makes and uses tools for survival?

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Homo sapiens

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Who is characterized by a precision grip?

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Homo sapiens

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A locomotion using forelimbs to swing from branch to branch?

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Brachiation

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How many chromosomes do human zygotes posses?

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46 chromosomes (25 pairs, diploid set)

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Human zygotes are referred to what?

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Fertilized eggs (ova)

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What are the alleles I the human A-B-O blood system?

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A B O

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In the human A-B-O blood system, which alleles are dominant?

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A, B

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Which alleles are codominant?

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A, B

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The genetic makeup of an organism, as found within a genome?

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Genotype

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The observed characteristics of an organism, it is the result of the interaction of genes within the environment?

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Phenotype

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If you have type O blood what is your genotype?

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O O

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If you have type AB blood, what is your genotype?

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A B

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The concept that biological and geological processes that affected the Earth still operate today.

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Uniformitarianism

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Considered the founder of the science of genetics based on his Experimental plant breeding experiments with the common garden pea.

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Gregor Johann Mendel

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Who discovered DNA?

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Rosalind Franklin, Watson and Crick

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