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ANTHROPOLOGY 1101 HUMAN ORIGINS SPRING 1997
MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE
Please Note that there is a Glossary of Human and Nonhuman
primates, a Glossary of Terms, and an Index in the back of your
textbook. In addition you have a Vocabulary page and a Glossary Page
on this website and photos of all of the Lab Specimens and Hominids.
Each Chapter of your textbook also has a keyword list and there are
definitions in blue in the margins of your textbook for major terms.
Good Luck!
Good Study Habits
physical anthropology
archaeology
cultural anthropology
linguistic anthropology
myth
evolution
science
hypothesis
data
explanation
Great Chain of Being
Carl von Linne -- Linnaeus
Origin of the Species
Charles Darwin
Russell Alfred Wallace
Jean Baptise De Lamarck
Lamarckian Evolution
Georges Cuvier
Catastrophism
Charles Lyell
Uniformitarianism
Bishop James Ussher of Armaugh
Thomas Malthus
natural selection
differential fertility
differential mortality
Darwinian fitness
phenotype
genotype
DNA
RNA
meiosis
mitosis
chromosomes
genes
locus
allele
mutation
homologous chromosome pairs
somatic cells
diploid
haploid
gametes
zygote
dominant
recessive
co-dominant
autosome
X-linked trait
Punnett Square
monogenetic trait
polygenetic trait
Gregor Mendel
gene flow
genetic drift
nucleus
karotype
natural selection
Stabilizing Selection
Frequency Dependent Selection
Directional Selection
Disruptive Selection
clines
race: biological and sociological
definitions
founder's effect
melanin
breeding population
species
Vervet
Baboon
Macaque
Leaf Monkey
Gibraltar
Orang-utan
Gibbon
Gorilla
Chimpanzee
microevolution
macroevolution
classification
taxonomy
anagenesis
cladogenesis
speciation
geographical isolation
Sulawesi
Borneo
law of competitive exclusion
genetic divergence
lemurs
Madagascar
paleontology
gradualism
punctuated equilibrium
convergent evolution
parallel evolution
prosimians
Prosimii
Anthropidea
Platyrrhini
Catarrhini
continental drift
Cercopithecoidea
Hominoidea
Hylobates
Pongids
analogy
savanna
nocturnal, diurnal
anthropomorphization
natal group
sexual dimorphism
alliance
neoteny
dominance hierarchy
altricial
philopatry
politics
polygyny
polyandry
estrus
sociobiology
langur monkey
infanticide
socioecology
sympatry
relative vs. absolute dating
stratigraphy
radiocarbon dating
potassium-argon dating
Ramapithecines
Rift Valley
Hadar
Aramis
Taung
Laetoli
Olduvai Gorge
Ardipithecus ramidus
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus africanus
Paranthropus robustus
Paranthropus boisei
robust vs. gracile
Louis & Mary Leakey
Donald Johanson
Richard Leakey
Maeve Leakey
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