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Anthropology Unit 2
Chapters 4&5
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/08/2015

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Term
Age of the solar system
Definition
4.57 billion years old
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Age of the earth
Definition
4.5 +/- .1 billion years
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Age of the universe
Definition
13.83 billion years old
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When did life arise?
Definition
~3.8-3.5 billion years old
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Cambrian Explosion: when did it happen and what did it give us?
Definition
542 million years old & decent with modification
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When did vertebrates appear?
Definition
525 million years ago
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Permian extinction
Definition
251 million years ago
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Cretaceous extinction: when did it happen?
Definition
65 million years ago
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Chicxulub
Definition
6 mile in diameter asteroid that hit the earth causing the cretaceous extinction
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When did early primates appear?
Definition
65-55 million years ago, after the cretaceous extinction
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Kinds of Primates: Prosimians
Definition
Pre-monkeys who are nocturnal
ex) lemur, lorises, tarsiers
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Anthropoids: Platyrrhini
Definition
New World Monkeys with flat nose, prehensile (long) tails, and one extra premolar
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Anthropoids:Catarrhini
Definition
old world monkeys that include apes and humans
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Catarrhini: Hominoidae
Definition
apes & monkeys
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Hominoidae: Hylobatide
Definition
the lesser apes found in east asia: gibbons & siamangs
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Catarrhini: Hominidae
Definition
Greater Apes
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Hominidae: Ponginae
Definition
orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzees & bonobo
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Hominidae: Homo
Definition
Humans
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Night Monkey
Definition
only nocturnal monkey in the world
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Paleocene epoch: when did it happen and what did it give us?
Definition
65 million years ago
gave us probable archaic primates
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Eocene Epoch: when did it happen and what did it give us?
Definition
55 million years ago
gave us the earliest undisputed primates
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Olgiocene epoch: when did it happen and what did it give us?
Definition
34 million years ago
new & old world monkeys split
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When did the Hominin Evolution happen?
Definition
6 million years ago
Term
when was the earliest undsiputed bipedal homonid, and what was the name?
Definition
3.72 million years ago
Ausrlopithecus afarensis
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When was the oldest homo genus fossil dated to?
Definition
2.8-2.75 million years ago
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When was homo erectus alive and why are they important?
Definition
1.89 million- 143 thousand years ago
what humans descended from
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Homo Heidelbergensis: who are they and when were they alive?
Definition
Archaic homo sapies
1.3 million/700,000-200,000 years ago
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Cranium of Hominin: Large Brains
Definition
increase in brain to body size
grater brain to face ratio from looking above
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Hominin Muzzles
Definition
shorter muzzles
lower in position
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Hominin eyes
Definition
on front of the face
color vision
depth perception
surrounded by bones
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Definition
surrounded by bones
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Hominins Smell
Definition
Sense of smell is decreased
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Hominins Teeth
Definition
generalized teeth to be imbivorous
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Hominins hands
Definition
Pentadactyle: 5 digits & opposable thumbs
nails not claws
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Prehensility
Definition
Grasping ability
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Hominin Chest
Definition
Retention of clavicle
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Hominin lower legs
Definition
2 bones: tibia & fibula
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Hominin Reproduction
Definition
Single births
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Hominin padded fingers
Definition
used to grip & brachiate "monkey bar motion"
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Hominin body to brain ratio
Definition
the bigger the body the bigger the brain
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How cooking food affected Homonins
Definition
muzzle retracted because the food got softer
Term
Cultural response to adaptive strategy
Definition
clothing fire tools & weapons
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Hominin Language
Definition
advanced used of symbolic communication
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Hominin Ovulation
Definition
concealed ovulation and no estrus cycle
Term
Hominin Infants
Definition
dependent on their mother far longer than other primates
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Hominin Male-Female division of labor
Definition
allows males to go further for food
females stay with children
males bring food back to share
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Bipedalism
Definition
locomotion on two legs
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Bipedal Locomotion
Definition
a controlled fall of pendulum motion of stance leg & swing leg
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Hominids Cranium
Definition
Head balanced on top of spinal column
--> side to side scanning
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Homininds: Binocular vision
Definition
humans can find objects against a background of visual clutter
Term
Hominins Spine
Definition
S-shaped
shorter & wider vertebrate
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Quadrapeds spine
Definition
arched/bridge shaped
weight distributed between 4 limbs
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Hominins pelvis
Definition
short, flat, and flared outwards
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Hominins gluteus maximus
Definition
largest muscle in humans
positioned on the back of the pelivs
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What allows for hominins to have a greater stride?
Definition
butt and hamstrings extend further than femur
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Hominin Knee
Definition
101 degree angle of femur to tibia
humans center of gravity along center line of the body
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Hominin Foot
Definition
Strictly weight bearing
Big toe enlarged & parallel to other toes
transverse & longitudinal arches
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Australopithecines
Definition
small brains
fur: fine & doesn't break the skin
bipedal w/ remnant arboreal skeleton
lived on the Savannah
Term
Homo Sapiens
Definition
Large Brains
Virtually hairless
oligate terrestrial bipeds
Term
Advantages to large brains& bipedalism: Surface area
Definition
less surface area exposed to the sun
Term
Advantages to large brains& bipedalism : heat transfer from organism to atmosphere
Definition
hairless & large heads allows heat transfer to be quick
Term
Advantages to large brains& bipedalism: efficiency of body's cooling system
Definition
evaporate cooling through seat glands is more efficient than
convective cooling (panting)
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Advantages to large brains& bipedalism: hunting
Definition
can run long distances in the heat
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Advantages to large brains& bipedalism: social beings
Definition
hunt in groups
share strategy
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Advantages to large brain
Definition
trap & track behavior
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Disadvantages to large brains& bipedalism
Definition
Carb, sodium, and water loss
use 1.3 liters of water per day at rest
die 4 days with out water
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Clinial Adaptations
Definition
alleles for a particular trait will be more frequently expressed where selective pressure for that trait is high
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How is skin color determined?
Definition
genes that control production of carotene, hemoglobin, & melanin
Term
Melanocytes
Definition
inject melanin into the space between the epidermis and dermis layer of the skin
Term
Dark Skinned Melanocytes
Definition
bigger melanin particles and many of them
Term
Light skinned melanocytes
Definition
smaller melanin particles and less of them
Term
Melanoma
Definition
Skin Cancer
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Hypervitaminosis D
Definition
too much vitamin D that can cause kidney failure
Term
Folate Destruction: what is it and what can it cause?
Definition
when you don't get enough vitamin B
women: neural tube defects that cause spina bifida
men: reduction in the creation of sperm
Term
Rickets
Definition
a disease where the long weight bearing bones don't get enough vitamin D so the legs and arms bow out
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Polymorphism
Definition
a trait with more than one allele in appreciable frequency
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balanced polymorphism
Definition
the maintenance of two or more alleles in a population due to the selective advantage of the heterozygote
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Lactose intolerance
Definition
the inability to digest fresh milk products
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Microevolution
Definition
evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms, especially over a short period.
Term
Natural Selection & lactose tolerance
Definition
shifts allele frequencies in the direction of lactose tolerance in cultures that are dependent on milk
Term
HIV Resistance
Definition
Confferred through a mutation on the CCR5-delta32 gene on chromosome 3
Term
HIV Homozygotes
Definition
could be completely resistant to many tupes of HIV
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HIV Heterozygoes
Definition
course of the disease is greatly slowed
Term
Bergmann's Rule
Definition
bodies in cold climates are shorter and rounder and bodies in warmer weather are tall and lean
Term
Allen's Rule
Definition
Protruding body parts (arms&legs) are shorter in cooler areas of a species' range than in the warmer areas
Term
Heat
Definition
hairless and evaporative cooling through 1.6 million sweat glands and vasodialation
Term
Cold: Biological & adaptive responses to increase heat
Definition
Biological: shivering & increased activity level
Cultrual: heaters, clothes, caloric intake
Term
High Elevation: Hypoxia
Definition
reduced available oxygen
Term
High Elevation Stressors
Definition
Intense sun
cold
low humidity
windy
reduced availability of food
rough terrain
fewer molecules of oxygen
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Physical Adaptations of people at Higher Acclimations
Definition
Larger barre chest, rounded rib cage, more red marrow in ribs and stermun, greater lung volume, lung capillaries dialated, larger right ventricle, higher resting heart rate, lower heart rate during physical activity
long stermun, 30% more RBCs, greater blood volume, fetuses have larger placentas
Term
Monge's Disease: what is it and what is a probable cause?
Definition
Sudden mysterious loss of adaptation to high elevations
Cause: smoking
Term
Acclimatization
Definition
physiological adjustments that people make when they encounter a new environment
Term
Gregor's Rule
Definition
populations of birds & mammals living in warm, humid climates have more melanin than populations of the same species living in cooler/drier areas
Term
Positives of dark skin
Definition
Melanin protects sensitive layers of the skin from the suns damaging rays
greater resistance to tropical dieases
Term
Positives of light skin
Definition
ultra violet rays give off vitamin D & facilitates the production of vitamin D
Vitamin D helps incorporate calcium into the bones
allows humans to live farther from the equator
Term
Sickle-Cell-Anemia
Definition
A condition when RBC's assume a cresecnt (sickle) shape when deprived of oxygen instead of the normal disk shape
Term
Sickle Cell Homozygotes
Definition
with out advanced medical care they don't live past a few years
Term
Sickle Cell Heterozygotes
Definition
have a resistance to malaria
Term
Race (biologically)
Definition
refers to a sub-population of a variety of a species that differs somewhat in gene frequencies from other varieties of the species
Term
Racism
Definition
The belief without scientific basis that some "races" are inferior to others
Term
R-Selected Organisms
Definition
Organisms put very little time and effort raising offspring but have many of them
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K-selected organisms
Definition
put a lot of time and effort into raisin the few offspring they have
Term
Cloning
Definition
the exact reproduction of an individual from cellular tissue
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Genetic Engineering
Definition
the substitution of some genes for others to make a perfect specimen
Term
Stem Cells
Definition
cells that can be induced to grow into tissue type
Term
Advantages of clavicles
Definition
gives a better ROM
move shoulders up & down
move shoulders in a circle
Term
Dinural
Definition
active during the day
Term
Quadrapeds
Definition
animals that walk on all fours
Term
Vertical Clinging and Leaping
Definition
from a vertical position uses only its hind limbs to push from one vertical position to another
Term
Arboreal Theory
Definition
explanation of primate origins
Term
Insectivores
Definition
a group of mammals including modern moles that is adapted to feeding on insects
Term
Fayum
Definition
a site in Egypt where the world's best record of Oligocene primate fossils
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