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Midterm Flashcards

1
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The lower _____ has evidence of both gradualism and adaptive radiation in human evolution, leading to many species of hominins

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palaeolithic

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2
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The human capacity for culture relies on many things, but the key piece that allow culture to change are selection and ______

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innovation

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3
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______ may be positive, negative, or neutral

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mutations

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4
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Platyrrhini have ______ fingers, toes, and tails

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prehensile

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5
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A trait that occurs because of common ancestry is referred to as a ______

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homology

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This suborder of primates includes lemurs, but not tarsiers

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strepsirhini

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7
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Cultural ______ is a debunked hypothesis that suggested that humans are forced to behave in a particular way because of our culture

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determinism

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Reduced ______ is a primate evolutionary trend that continues throughout human evolution, leading up to our species

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prognathism

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_______ is the study of processes that affect bones, for example weathering, scavenging, and fossilization

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taphonomy

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10
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This characteristic of the anthropological lens would suggest that we need to understand humans both in terms of culture and biology, for example

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Holism

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11
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Ethnography

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  • one culture in detail
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12
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Ethnology

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  • compares across cultures
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13
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Evolution

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  • change over time
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14
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Culture

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  • learned behaviours and ideas
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15
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Subfields of anthropology (4, kinda 5)

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  • biological
  • cultural
  • linguistic
  • archaeology
    (- applied)
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16
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Typology

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  • study of classes with common characteristics
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17
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Emic

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  • cultural insiders view
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18
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Etic

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  • outside observer’s view
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19
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Cultural relativism

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  • all cultures equally valid
  • understanding the whole
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20
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Enculturation

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  • process of a child learning their culture
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21
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4 aspects of culture

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  • learned
  • symbolic
  • shared
  • holistic
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22
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ethnocentrism

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  • others are wrong or abnormal for being different than us
  • our way of life is correct
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23
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How many species of primates?

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  • around 500
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24
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common primate characteristics

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  • prehensibility
  • large brains
  • diverse diets
  • forward facing eyes
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25
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adaptive radiation

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  • animals evolve to fill ecological niche
  • ex. dinos go extinct
26
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primate phrenology (4 terms to remember)

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  • strepsirhini
  • haplorhini:
    - platyrrhini
    - catarrhini
27
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wet nose

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  • strepsirhini
28
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dry nose

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  • haplorhini
29
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folivery

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  • mainly eat leaves
30
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kinds of strepsirhini

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  • lemur
  • loris
31
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kinds of haplorhini

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  • tarsiers
  • monkeys
  • apes
  • humans
32
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platyrrhini characteristics

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  • flat nose
  • nostrils point out
  • prehensile tail
33
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catarrhini characteristics

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  • no prehensile tail
  • nostrils point down
  • sexual dimorphism
34
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hypothesis

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  • must be testable
  • can collect and analyze data
  • support/reject
35
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theory

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  • multiple well-supported hypotheses
36
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gene flow

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  • genes move between populations
  • members of the same species but don’t normally mate
37
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genetic drift

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  • random factor in evolution
  • small group leaves, parent population begins new population
38
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gradualism

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  • speed of evolution
  • slow and steady
39
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punctuated equillibrium

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  • speed of evolution
  • slow and steady, interrupted by brief significant change
40
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speciation

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  • new species emerge
41
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genetics

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  • study of individual genes and role in inheritance
42
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Linnaeus

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  • binomial system
  • 2 names (homo sapien)
42
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Lamarck

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  • organisms respond to their environment by changing
  • changes are passed on
  • made Darwin’s theories possible
43
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Covier

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  • studied fossil records
44
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Lyell

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  • world is product of gradual changes over time
  • uniformitarianism: changes are ongoing
45
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Darwin

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  • common origin
  • natural selection
46
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microevolution

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  • small changes
  • single species
  • few generations
47
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macroevolution

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  • changes lead to new species
  • diversification over millions of years
48
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misconceptions about genetics

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  • single genes code for most traits
  • mutations are always bad
  • inbreeding leads to mutations
  • DNA is fixed at birth
49
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when was the earliest tool use?

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  • 3.3 mya
50
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fossil

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  • any preserved early human remains
51
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fossil record

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  • interpretation of human evolution
  • the assembly of human remains collected
52
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osteology

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  • study of the human skeleton
53
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determining age of fossils (3 methods)

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  • potassium argon dating
  • radiocarbon dating
  • dating by association
54
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defining characteristics between hominins and hominoids

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  • bipedalism
  • teeth
  • skulls
55
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lower palaeolithic

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  • hominoid development
  • about 4.4 mya - 500,000 ya
56
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middle paleolithic

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  • neandertals and homo sapiens
  • about 500 kya - 40 kya
57
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upper palaeolithic

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  • homo sapiens
  • about 40 kya - 12 kya
58
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ape and hominin differences

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  • prognathism (we are flat faced)
  • brow ridge
  • sagittal crest
  • cranial capacity
59
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australopithecus

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  • 4.2 mya
  • 1st clearly bipedal hominid
  • everything other than skull looks human
60
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homo habilis

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  • 1.5 mya
  • may have evolved into erectus
  • 1st of our genus
61
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homo heidelbergensis

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  • transitional species between H. erectus and H. neanderthalensis/sapiens

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