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Human ev 2
exam 2
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/30/2013

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Philopatry
Definition
an animal or species tending to return to or remain near a particular site
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Socioecology
Definition
Focuses on the relationship between social behavior and the natural enviroment
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Basic social unti in all Primates
Definition
Mother and her Infant
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K -Selected
Definition
Primates who only produce a few offspring, But they invest a lot of time/ Parental care into them
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Frontal Lobe
Definition
Thought, Action, Planning, Personality
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Occiptal Lobe
Definition
Vision
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Parietal Lobe
Definition
Sensation, Touch
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Temporal Lobe
Definition
Hearing, Facial Recaganitaion
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Primary Cortex
Definition
Directly receives info
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Association Coretex
Definition
Integrates additonal info
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Hominoid
Definition

Superfamily of hominoidea 

comprises of humans,gibbons, and the great apes

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hominid (Tradtional classfication)
Definition
as taxonomic classifiation changes with new findindgs humans and their ancestors are refered to as this
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Behaviorial Ecology
Definition
Natural Slection acts on behaviors, Enviroment plays a role
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Vocal Communication
Definition
Communication with sound
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Verbal  Communication
Definition
grammer,syntax
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Sociobiologys explanation for altrustic beahviors
Definition
assumption is that it has a gentic basis, an indviduals sucess is determined by fitness, your gentic contrubution to the next generation
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Arboreal adapation
Definition

one hypothsess for primate evolution

traits such as grasping hands and bionocular vision were adapted to life in the trees

 

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visual predation
Definition

one of the two primate hypothses

primate traits evolved in response to preying on insects and othe small creatures 

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Monogamy
Definition

social group 

1 male 1 female, dependent offspring

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Polygamy
Definition

social group 

multi male, multi female 

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Polygyny
Definition

Social group

1 male, many females 

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Noyau
Definition

social group

solitary

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Humans + languague
Definition

Humans are the only spices to produce verbal languague, 

other primtaes can not becuase they do not have the same vocal structures to produce words also in there brians they do not have brocas area and wernikes area 

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R seclted
Definition

high reproductive 

early maturity 

rapid growth

small organisms 

low investment in parental 

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