Ucla anthropology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Anthropology - Ans Studies human kinds past and present biological, social, and cultural variations to comprehend the full scope of human diversity Ethnocentrism - Ans Assusming one's own way of life is best, and using it to as a measure to judge others Cultural Relativism - Ans Understanding something according to the cultural standards of its context. Opposite of ethnocentrism

Most of human prehistory, people relied on ___________ for their subsistence. - Ans Scavenging In terms of their subsistence, the Natufian people were _______ - Ans Hunter Gatherers Some of the first wild plants to be domesticated in the New World were _____, ______ and squashes - Ans Maize and beans Rice, wheat and millet are examples of _____ that were domesticated after 10,000 ybp - Ans grains

Rosalind Franklin - Ans produced x-ray photographs of DNA which help to uncover the structure Anaximander - Ans speculated that living beings arose gradually from water and suggested that men originated from animals Aristotle - Ans believed that species and the universe are fixed and determined and living species don't go extinct or evolve

bioethics correct answer: The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care. ethics correct answer: sustained and intentional reflection on morality and the moral life with analysis, discontent, reasoning, and arguments moral rules or principles of behavior that should guide members of a profession or organization and make them deal honestly and fairly with each other and with their custom utilitarianism correct answer: 1 fundamental moral good-to maximize outcomes of ...

UCLA Anthropology 1 Midterm 1 STUDY GUIDE PRACTICE EXAM

What are the most important cultural consequences of food production in terms of changes in economic life? Link these changes in subsistence directly to changes in social and political organization. - Ans The development of sedentary farming villages began with the Neolithic in various places in the Old World. With the growing cultural complexity there was a development of stratified social systems. This system controlled the excess wealth that was made with the production of agricultural s...

How does Hill define "White public space?" (3) - Ans - Physical and interactional spaces of unequal power relations - White public spaces are seen as normal (unmarked) and anything that doesn't align with it is different and policed (marked) - the most important sites of the practices of racial

UCLA ANTHROPOLOGY 1 FINAL EXAM 2024 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

What frequencies can random mating affect? - Ans genotype frequencies, but no allele Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium - Ans no evolutionary forces are at work, so genotypic frequencies remain constant after one generation The key finding of the modern synthesis - Ans continuous traits are affected by genes at my loci Dose effects - Ans each allele leads to different amounts of growth hormone being produced

Importance of water in Mediterranean - Ans -enables people to bring large amount of quantities from one place to the next -makes trade a huge economic resource -globalized trade--> monetized economy w/ coinage; however, this brings in risks bc there is commodity farming not self sufficient farming Rome: 753 BCE - Ans founding of rome