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| The holistic, scientific study of humankind |
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| Biological Anthropologist |
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| The subfield of anthropology that studies humans as a biological species |
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| The traditional name for biological anthropology |
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| A group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring among themselves but not with members of other groups. |
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| Ideas and behaviors that are learned and transmitted. Nongenetic means of adaptation. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that focuses on human cultural behavior and cultural systems and the variation in cultural expression among human groups. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that describes the characteristics of human language and studies the relationships between languages and the cultures that speak them. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that studies the human cultural past and reconstructs past cultural systems. |
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| Assuming an interrelationship among the parts of a subject. |
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| Any object that has been consciously manufactured. |
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| Focusing on the interaction of biology and culture. |
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| Studying another culture from its point of view without imposing our own cultural values. |
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| The judging of one culture by the standards of another |
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| The method of inquiry that requires the generation, testing, and acceptance or rejection of hypotheses. |
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| The process of conducting scientific inquiry. |
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| A proposed explanation for a natural phenomenon. |
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| The process of developing a general explanation from specific observations. |
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| Suggesting specific data that would be found if a hypothesis were true. |
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| A general idea that explains a large set of factual patterns. |
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| Ideas that are taken on faith and cannot e scientifically tested. |
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| Native; refers to a group of people with a long history in a particular area |
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| A description of a cultural system based on fieldwork within that culture |
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| Scientifically testable ideas that are taken on faith without scientific evidence to support them or even when tested and shown to be false. |
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| Head. Alpacas, sheep, llamas, pigs. Dispersed settlements, caused by following herds, are facial features. Grass and wool of llamas are hair originating in "nawi" or eyes. |
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| Body. Central fields - potatoes, oca, barley. 3yrs in production 5yrs fallow. Ayllu's central chapel and political leaders form liver and heart. Root plants grow inside Earth like viscera gives vitality and power to a person. |
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| Legs (rivers). Maize, wheat, barley, peas, beans. Narrow strips of land. |
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