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Exam 1 Study Guide

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What is Anthropology?   show
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show A provisional explanation of a phenomenon. It must be tested and verified. ***If a hypothesis cannot be falsified, it is accepted as a theory!***  
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What is a theory?   show
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What does Physical Anthropology deal with?   show
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show 1. Natural Selection. 2. Mutation. 3. Gene Flow. 4. Genetic Drift ("Founders Effect")  
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show 1. Organisms vary from each other in ways that are inherited. 2. Differential reproductive success (not everyone produces offspring) 3. Certain inherited traits can increase survival. 4. Frequency of successful traits increase in subsequent generati  
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show A phenotyic difference between males and females  
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What Kingdom do Humans belong to?   show
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show Primate  
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show Hominidae  
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show Homo  
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show Sapiens  
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What primary tool did Homo habilis use?   show
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show Hand axe  
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What are the 4 Fields of Anthropology?   show
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show Life is dynamic, not static. (always changes, doesn't stay the same) Referred to this as "evolution"  
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show Proposed the idea of Uniformitarianism  
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show Georges Cuvier.  
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What is Taphonomy?   show
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show Archbishop James Ussher  
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Who was the first to classify humans, apes, and monkeys in the same order?   show
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Who wrote an essay on the Principle of Population?   show
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show Species that produce more offspring than will survive.  
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