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Chapter 6
How are human biology, culture and the environment interacting?
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
03/26/2009

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Acclimatization
Definition
Reversibly physical change during an individual's lifetime
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Biological adaption
Definition
Changes in anatomy or physiology in a population as a response to environment stimuli
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Biological evolution
Definition
Genetic change over generations in a population
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Bipedal
Definition
Walking on 2 legs
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Cultural adaption
Definition
Changes in learned behavior and thought processes by a population in response to environmental stimuli
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Developmental adaption
Definition
Irreversible physiological changes in individuals during their lifetime
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Infanticide
Definition
The killing of newborns
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Morbidity
Definition
The frequency of a disease in a population
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Postpartum sex taboos
Definition
Restrictions on intercourse for a certain period of time after giving birth
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Primates
Definition
The biological order that includes monkeys, apes, humans, and prosmians
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Patrilocal extended family
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A married couple and the families of their married sons
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Socio-natural system
Definition
Describing a cultural ecological system in which a human population adapts to a "nature" of its own creation
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Strategy of adaption
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The set of behaviors permitting a species or culture to survive and change in response to environmental stimuli
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