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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/19/2008

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Term
estrus swelling
Definition
a hormonally influenced period before ovulation where baboons skin around the geneital areas will increase and swell, this let's males know that she's fertile and wanting to mate
Term
Extinction by evolution
Definition
when the original form is extict but there are living relatives still arouns such as mamouths relatives, there a are still elephants
Term
biological Spencerism aka Social Darwinism
Definition
H. Spencer theory that we shouldn't be concerned with other races, the poor, those inferior to us

let the weak die to importove the quality of life for living specie and those to come.
Term
Stabelizing Selection
Definition
-most common type of selection
-when a selection maintains a certain phenotype

thi keeps a population in uniform.
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extinction by evolution
Definition
the original form of a type of animal such as a mamouth are extint but there are living relatives in its place such as elephants.
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polygenesis
Definition
A chimp belief that are derived from the adam and eve creations
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Plasticity
Definition
-things change
-When individuals physiology responds to change in an environment .Examples of this are when there is a lack of food in an environment, the animal will become considerably thinner.
Term
K selection
Definition
a reproductive stradegy where fewer offspring are produced
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in K selection births
Definition
-interbirth, where the intervals are long
-slow maturation
-increased i.e.
-longer lives
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adolescent sterility
Definition
-a stage where hormonal and menstural cycles gradually mature into an adult form
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r selection
Definition
a reproductivestradegy where females have multiple offspring but thier offspring has
-a faster maturation but
-shorter lives
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