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Human Variation test 1
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2009

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Blumenbach
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5 global races: caucasian, mangoloid,ethiopian, american, malay
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Hrdlicka
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believed in correlation btw human variation and insanity
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Lombrosco
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beieved in correlation between human variation and primitiveness (and criminal activity)
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Samuel Morton
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measured cranial capacity with mustard seeds, collected crania, came up with racial order of brain sizes, but his data was later re-analyzed and differences were negated
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Retzius
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cephalic index: brachy, meso, dolicho; started arguments as to which is more advanced
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Broca
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discovered lesion- Broca's aphasia; first to say u could study specific brain functions scientifically; thought men were smarter b/c of larger brains- affected education in France for boys and girls; founded Ecole d'Anthropologie
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Pearson
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Biometric School, mass amts. of data to quantify human variation, PCA
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Rudolf Martin
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Lehr der Anthropologie; standardized way of measuring/recording human variation
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Morgan & Tyler's terms for levels of society
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Civilization (writing), Barbarism (agriculture), Savagery
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today's parallel terms for stages
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complex societies, small scale agriculture, hunter-gatherers
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Morgan&Tyler's views on stages of humans
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"progress" ultimate goal; diff societies progressed at diff rates; Morgan: morl respons. of more advanced to help others catch up; implicit- those left behind inferior
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M&T's technique that is still around
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observing living examples as analogies of the past
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today's parallel terms for stages
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complex societies, small scale agriculture, hunter-gatherers
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Buffon
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"Varieties in the Human Species", first zoo, first to talk about bio. diffs in relat. to environment
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Hooton
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measured and photographed college undergrads, made statues of "ideal" man and woman
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De Gobineau
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started school of eugenics
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Galton
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eugenics proponent, tried to influence politics, taught at cambridge, set up lab for studying inheritance of behavioral traits
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Davenport
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set up eugenics lab at cold spring harbor
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Boaz
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race =/= language =/= culture
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Coon, Garn and Birdsell
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book called Races, some valid and some false conclusions
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Coon
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wrote origin of races- 5 races, crossed into homo sapiens at diff times
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Lewontin
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15% vs 85% variation
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heritability
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h^2 = Vg/(Vg+Ve). Vp=Vg+Ve. 0
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variance equation
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s^2 = sum (xbar - u)^2 / N
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allometry
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exponential relationship ( y = ax^b). b=allometric coefficient, a=constant
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isometry
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linear relationship. 10% increase in one aspect = 10% in other
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null hypothesis in measuring pop. statistics
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the two samples could derive from the same pop.
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probability measure rules
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p<0.05 probably samples are from diff pops.
p<0.01 essentially meaningful
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standard deviation
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sqrt(s^2).
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standard error
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standard dev. / sqrt(N)
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Student's t
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t = (xbar1 - xbar2) / (sqrt[s1^2 + s2^2])
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D squared technique
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taking coeff. of racial likeness and correcting for intercorrelation
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principle components analysis (PCA)
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orthogonal axes. think about data in n-dimensional space (n=number of variables). each data point occupies a spot in that space. first line on first axis account for most of variation. line on 2nd axis (perpendicular to 1st) accounts for most of remaining variation. there are n-1 axes. just b/c 2 variables load heavily on one axis doesnt mean they are correlated
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