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JULIE ADKINS UTA ANTHROPOLOGYEXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fluorine dating - ANSWER-Method that measures the amount of fluoride absorbed
by bones in order to determine their relative age.
Foramen Magnum - ANSWER-The hole in the base of the skull through which the
spinal cord passes.
Gene flow - ANSWER-Transfer of genetic variation from one population to another.
Gene pool - ANSWER-The stock of different genes in an interbreeding population.
Genetic Drift - ANSWER-Variation in the relative frequency of different genotypes in
a small population, owing to the chance disappearance of particular genes as
individuals die or do not reproduce.
Genotype - ANSWER-The genetic constitution of an individual organism.
Great Chain of Being - ANSWER-Studied by natural philosophers. Ranks life from
most important to least
Holistic - ANSWER-Characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as
intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.
Hominids - ANSWER-A primate of a family (Hominidae) that includes humans and
their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes.
Hominoids - ANSWER-A primate of a group that includes humans, their fossil
ancestors, and the anthropoid apes.
Homo erectus - ANSWER-First ones found in Asia 1.9 million years ago have larger
brains and smaller teeth, increase in body size, more human like body form. Uses
fire, slight brain increase capacity for language.
Homo Floresiensis - ANSWER-Lived 38-18 KYA. Were discovered in 2003 at Liang
Bua on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
Homo Habilis - ANSWER-Known as 'handy man' is a species of the genus Homo
which lived from approximately 2.6 MYA
Homo Naledi - ANSWER-Lived 250-450 KYA. Skeletons were found in the Gauteng
province of South Africa, in the Rising Star Cave system, part of the Cradle of
Humankind World Heritage Site
Homo sapiens (archaic/modern) - ANSWER-Is a single species comprising several
subspecies that include the archaics and modern humans
, Multiregional Hypothesis - ANSWER-Therory that states mutation happened in
different parts of the world. But breeding from around the world created the "modern
human"
Recent African origins hypothesis - ANSWER-Theory that states that every human
comes from a single populaton in Africa.
"Inheritance of acquired characteristics" - ANSWER-Theory created by Lamarck that
states If an organism changes during life in order to adapt to its environment, those
changes are passed on to its offspring.
Kennewick Man - ANSWER-One of the most complete ancient skeletons ever found.
Lived 9KYA
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste - ANSWER-French naturalist and creator of the theory of
"inheritance of acquired characteristics"
Law of competitive exclusion - ANSWER-Created by Georgy Gause , states that
Two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist at constant
population values. One will outlive the other.
Linguistic anthropology - ANSWER-The interdisciplinary study of how language
influences social life.
Linnaeus, Carolus - ANSWER-The originator of the system of classification of
animals and plants.
Lyell, Charles - ANSWER-
Mendel, Gregor - ANSWER-Became known posthumously as the Father of Modern
Genetics because of his work documenting the inheritance of selected traits in
garden peas.
Midden - ANSWER-Old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone,
human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, sherds, lithics (especially
debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.
Miocene apes - ANSWER-Named by Charles Lyell
Molecular anthropology - ANSWER-Molecular analysis is used to determine
evolutionary links between ancient and modern human populations, as well as
between contemporary species.
Mousterian tradition - ANSWER-Flint lithic tools associated primarily with the earliest
anatomically modern humans North Africa and West Asia, as well as with the
Neanderthals in Europe.
Mutation - ANSWER-The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant
form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of
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