Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Review Questions And Answers
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Biological Anthropology
Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Review
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Culture The sum total of learned traditions, values and beliefs that groups of people (and a
few species of highly-intelligent animals) possess
Biocultural anthropology The study of the interaction between biology and culture, which
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Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Review
Questions And Answers
Culture The sum total of learned traditions, values and beliefs that groups of people (and a
few species of highly-intelligent animals) possess
Biocultural anthropology The study of the interaction between biology and culture, which
plays a role in most human traits
Cultural anthropology The study of human societies in a cross-cultural context; the
subdivision that includes ethnology, archaeology, and linguistics (all aspects of human behavior)
Ethnology The study of human societies, their traditions, rituals, beliefs, and the
differences between societies in these traits
Ethnography The practice of cultural anthropology; Studying the minute to minute
workings of human societies; especially non-Western
Linguistic anthropology The comparative study of language, its origins, and use in
culture; also called anthropological linguistics; acquisition in infancy and childhood
, Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Review
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Archaeology The study of the material culture of past peoples
Artifacts The objects, from tools to art, left by earlier generations of people
Material culture The objects or artifacts of past human societies
Paleoanthropology The study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their primate
kin
Osteology The study of the skeleton
Paleopathology The study of diseases in ancestral human populations
Bioarchaeology The study of human remains in an archaeological context
Forensic anthropology The study of human remains applied to legal context
, Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Review
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Primatology The study of the nonhuman primates and their anatomy, genetics, behavior,
and ecology
Human biology Human growth and development, adaptation to environment extremes and
human genetics
Physical anthropology The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an
evolutionary framework
Observation Gathering of scientific information by watching a phenomenon
Deduction A conclusion that follows logically from a set of observations
Hypothesis A preliminary explanation of a phenomenon; Formation is the first step of the
scientific method
Experimentation Testing a hypothesis
, Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Review
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Data Scientific evidence produced by an experiment or by observation, from which
scientific conclusions are made
Scientific method Standard scientific research procedure in which a hypothesis is stated,
data are collected to test it, and the hypothesis is either supported or refuted
Falsifiable Able to be shown to be false
Paradigm A conceptual framework useful for understanding a body of evidence
Immutability Stasis; lack of change
Polygenism Ancient belief that all people are derived from multiple creations
Monogenism Ancient belief that people are derived from single creation
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