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Introduction to Phsyical Anthro.
Chap 1 Intro. to Physical Anthro. (pp.1-16)
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
08/30/2009

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Anthropocentricity
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Anthropological Perspective
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Australopithecus afarensis
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is an extinct hominid which lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago.
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Cultural Resource Management CRM
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the conservation and management of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites and their contents as a means of safeguarding the archaeological record

the conservation and management of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites and their contents as a means of safeguarding the archaeological record

the conservation and management of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites and their contents as a means of safeguarding the archaeological record.
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Data Collection
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Economic Anthropology
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is a scholarly field that attempts to explain human economic behavior using the tools of both economics and anthropology. It has a complex relationship with economics. There are three major paradigms within the field of economic anthropology: formalism, substantivism and culturalism.
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Ethnocentrism
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bias in which other societies are evaluated or judged by standards or morals derived from the observer's culture.
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Historic
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after first known written records
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Homo sapiens
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A human is a member of a species of bipedal primates in the family Hominidae (taxonomically Homo sapiens—Latin: "wise man" or "knowing man").
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Human Footprints on the Moon (July 20, 1969)
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Apollo mission astronauts left footprints, and because there’s no weather the footprints are not disturbed.
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Human Variation and Adaptive Significance
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Laetoli Footprints
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is a site in Tanzania, dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its hominin footprints, preserved in volcanic ash (Site G). Preserved for 4 million years.
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Material Culture
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referring to technology and artifacts.
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Medical Anthropology
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is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology. As a label for empirical research and theoretical production by anthropologists into the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness and the nursing/care practices associated with these.
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Molecular Anthropology
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study of anthropology in which molecular analysis is used to determine evolutionary links between peoples, ancient and modern populations, as well as between contemporary species.
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New World vs. Old World Archaeology
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pertaining to the areas of the world most recently discovered by Europeans; e.g., North and South America. VS. pertaining to areas of the world having the longest period of documented human habitation: e.g., Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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Non-Scientific Belief Systems are:
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explanatory, progressive/non-progressive, static (but dynamic), have built-in defense mechanism(s) against any outside evidence that is contrary to the core beliefs of the belief system, non-predictive.
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Prehistoric
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the millennia of ancient human history preceding written records. Pre-historians study prehistoric archaeology
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Primates
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Members of the order of mammals Primates (pronounced pry-may´-tees), which includes prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans.
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Scientific Method
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observation –

explanation/hypothesis/falsification [induction] –[deduction] testing–

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replication -

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Species
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A group of organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Members of one species are reproductively isolated from members of all other species (that is, they can't mate with them to produce fertile offspring).
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Urban Anthropology
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is a branch of anthropology that focuses on cultural and social processes in urban areas. A relatively new subfield that emerged in the 1960s and 70s, urban anthropology is often concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, and neo-liberalism.
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Great Chain of Being
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The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchical links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God.
The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchical links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God.
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Fixity of Species
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God created and therefore life-forms could not change; to genetic change or changes in frequencies of certain traits in populations due to differential reproductive success between individuals.
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