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bio anthro exam 2
measurement of the human individual--size, shape, composition - ✔✔Anthropometrics
One method of anthropometrics; a measure of body weight relative to height -
✔✔Body Mass Index (BMI)
Heat adapted mammals will have smaller bodies than cold adapted mammals. B/c heat
is lost at the surface, smaller SA:Volume (large bodies) has greater heat retention &
reduced heat loss - ✔✔Bergmann's Rule
Longer appendages w/ high SA:Mass promotes heat loss (hot); shorter appendages w/
high Mass:SA are effective at preventing heat loss (cold) - ✔✔Allen's Rule
characteristics w/ different phenotypic expression; if the locus that governs it has 2+
alleles. - ✔✔Polymorphism
%
multiple alleles present in a population due to stabilizing selection. - ✔✔Balanced
polymorphism
ex. of balanced polymorphism in C. Africa (malaria endemic); Heterozygotes are
resistant to extreme forms of malaria, do not have full sickling. - ✔✔Sickle cell anemia
chimpanzees in gombe - ✔✔Jane Goodall
orangutans - ✔✔Birute Galdikas
gorillas - ✔✔Dian Fossey
the anthropologist who hired the female primatologists to discover things about early
man - ✔✔Louis Leakey
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