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JULIE ADKINS UTA ANTHROPOLOGYEXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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
single base units in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of larger
sections of genes or chromosomes.
Natural selection - ANSWER-The process whereby organisms better adapted to their
environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was
first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process
that brings about evolution.
Neandertal - ANSWER-Lived 125-30 KYA
H. neandertalensis
H. sapians neandertalensis
Made tools called Mousterian. First to bury the dead.
New World monkeys - ANSWER-Small to mid sized primates.
Old World monkeys - ANSWER-Native to Africa and Asia
Olduwan tradition - ANSWER-Tools that are "choppers".
Paleoanthropology - ANSWER-The branch of anthropology concerned with fossil
hominids.
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.
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