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EXAM 1 Sefczek SDSU
Lecture 1-4
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
02/12/2012

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4 fields of anthropology
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biological, cultural, archaeological, linguistics
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subfields of biological anthropology
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BIOLOGICAL & BIOCULTURAL

skeletal, primatology, paleoanthropology, genetics, nutritional, demography
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Sir Francis Bacon
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The scientific method
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Carolus Linnaeus
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binomial naming system-plants & animals
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George Cuvier
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Catastrophism
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Thomas Huxley
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Darwin's bulldog, grandfather of Julian Huxley
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Julian Huxley
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Combined the theories of genetics and evolution
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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
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1st to mention evolution but got it slightly wrong

Giraffes
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Eldridge & Gould
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punctuated equilibrium
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Thomas Malthus
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founded demography: only some will find enough food to survive
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Charles Lyell
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reinforced Hutton's theory with more geological evidence
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James Hutton
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calculated earths age to be a million years old-set premice for theory of evolution
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Gregor Mendell
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father of genetics
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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also discovered evolution and natural selection around the same time as Darwin
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Watson & Crick
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discovered how chromosomes replicate
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Anthony Allison
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discovered that gene frequencies manipulated by natural selection
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Charles Darwin
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natural selection, speciation, gradual change, 1st to say evolution had already occurred, wrote The Descent of Man
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2 steps of protein synthesis
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translation (tRNA) & transcription (mRNA)
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DNA
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thimine
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RNA
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uracil
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loci
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single location of genes/chromosomes
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Allele
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The different forms that a gene can take (recessive/dominant) 2 per trait, 1 per parent
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mitosis
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somatic cell division
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meiosis
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haploid cell division

production of gametes (sex cells)
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stages of human growth
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prenatal (3 phases), post natal: infancy, childhood, juvenile, puberty, adolescence, adult: reproductive and senescence
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stressors and plasticity
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things that affect our homeostasis and ways we maintain it
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Franz Boas
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(German) father of anthropology. Debunked the idea of race
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2 things necessary for speciation
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reproductive isolation and genetic variation
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4 types of adaptations
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physiological (ex. barrel chest), developmental (not inherited not reversible), genetic (inherited, not reversible) and cultural (environmental changes)
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how adaptations are interconnected
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dark skinned people don't tan (physiological), cold weather=heavy clothes (cultural)
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