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physical anthropology midterm
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/29/2011

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Emile Durkeim
Definition
Function of religion, sociology
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James Ussher
Definition
Date of creation 4004 bc
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Aristotle
Definition
Classification, fixed species
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John Ray and William Paley
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Early naturalist, gods hand
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Copernicus
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Heliocentrism
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Edward Tyson
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Comparitive anatomy
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Binomial nomenclature
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George Cuvier
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Catostrophism, paleontology, deep is old
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James Hutton
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Natural processes change earth
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Charles Lyell
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Geological processes, earth is old
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Jean Lamarck
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Wrong evolution, increasing complexity
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Thomas Malthus
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Population will increase until we run out of food
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Alfred Wallace
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Biogeography
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Gregor Mendel
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Genetics - pea plants
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Francis Galton
Definition
Misapplied evolution, quantify humanness
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Ernst Haeckel
Definition
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny (embryos)
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Herby Spencer
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Social darwinist, survival of the fittest
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Fixity of species
Definition
Aristotle
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Lost tribes of ham
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Explanation for people in new world
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Ontogeny
Definition
origin and development of organism
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Kay's threshold
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Under 500g is insectivorous
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Wallace's line
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Ecological zones
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Phylogeny
Definition
Life through time
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Strepsirrhine
Definition
Wet nose
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Haplorrhine
Definition
Dry nose
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Catarrhine
Definition
Dry verticle nostrils
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Mammal traits
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One set teeth, set jaws, eat and breathe, suck, nervous system, hair/fur, placenta, novel bones, determinant growth, slow life history
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Primate traits
Definition
Front facing eyes, reduced rostrum, huge brain, nails, grasping digits, slow life history
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functions of religion
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Binds, social order, transmit culture, sacred/profane, heritage, explain world
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Natural selection steps
Definition
Overpopulation - genetic variation - more adapted survive - offspring resemble parents
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Lyell and Mendel on Darwin
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Earth is old, overpopulation
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Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
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Bad because embryos don't do that
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Cladogram
Definition
Lemurs lorises, galagos - tarsiers - new world monkeys - old world - apes
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Ring tailed lemurs
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No sexual dimorphism, mate one day
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Owl monkey - aotus
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Only nocturnal monkey
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Howler monkey - alouatta
Definition
Enlarged hyoid
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Macaques - macaca
Definition
Huge distribution
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Orangutans - pongo
Definition
Smart, solitary, 2 male morphs
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Tarsiers
Definition
Nocturnal leapers
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