Week 4 Flashcards
Study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in
organisms
genetics
Plastic Surgery, Genetic Screening, Genetic
Engineering (designer babies), Physical Perfection
(reduces human diversity), Increase Socio Economic
Inequality
genetics
Long term plasticity of the human genome.
evolution
terms related to evolution
variation, adaptation, and inheritance
Biological similarities and differences originated at the creation characteristics of life forms were seen as immutable.
creationism
After each destructive event, God had created again leading to contemporary species.
Catastrophism
Father of Geology
Charles Lyell
States that the present is the key to the past.
Principle of Uniformitarianism
Explanations for past events should be sought in the long-term action of ordinary forces that still operates today.
Principle of Uniformitarianism
The earliest widely accepted Hominin Genus.
Ardipithecus
Adaption to open grassland or savanna.
bipedalism
Compared with contemporary humans, they had very small brain; trait that has been lost during subsequent human evolution big back teeth.
Early Hominins
Team led by scientists Louis and Mary Leakey
uncovered the fossilized remains of a unique early
human between 1960 and 1963 at Olduvai Gorge in
Tanzania.
Homo Habilis
ound 1964 near lake turkan kenya . This is the most complete homo erectus ever found.
Nariokotome boy; homo erectus
The earliest members of our species, along with the
—— of Europe and the middle east.
Neanderthal