UCSP FINAL Flashcards
Focuses on the formation of new species and on the evolutionary relationship between group of species
Macroevolution
Is often defined as a population capable of interbreeding of producing viable, fertile offspirng
Species
Evolution of skull
Australopithecus
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Process through which certain environmentally adapted biological features are perpetuated at the expense of less adaptive features
Natural selection
According to the theory, the continents moved as edges of underlying plates are created or destroyed
theory of plate teconics
human beings
Homo and homi
Resembling
oxide
during these period, the African and Eurasian land masses made direct contact
Miocene period
Had a larger brain, was more able to adapt to the environment and provide solutions to problems of survival.
Homo erectus
it is also called old stone age
Paleolithic period
Three divisions of paleolithic period
Lower paleolithic period
middle paleolithic period
upper paleolithic period
marked the existence of the Homo Erectus. During this period, the hand ax and other stone tools were created.
Lower paleolithic period
Homo sapeins made more efficient tools, allowing them to do anatomical labor much easer.
Middle paleolithic period
The blade was the most distinct tool developed during this period
Upper paleolithic period
Literally means the New stone age revolution because of the polished stone tools and the techniques that produced such tools emerged during this period
Neolithic Revolution
Was a time of fundamental change; it was the period when food production started
Neolithic Revolution
Made any waterways less navigable and unfit for trade
Soil erosion
Latin word that refers to a person who lives in a city
civis
Latin word that refers to the urban community in which one dwells
civets
Refers to societies in which large numbers of people live in cities
Civilization
Four basic changes mark the transition from neolithic village life to life in the first urban centers
Agricultural innovation
diversification of labor
social stratification
central government
is a complex, multi-linear process operating under certain contexts and structures unique to each country albeit delimited by dominant structures
Democratization
is the building of political institutions, common interests, and new forms of legitimitation
Democratization
where was the idea of democracy initiated
GREECE
