Bio Anthro Unit 1

anthropology

holistic approach and study of humanity as socially embedded, culture-producing, biological beings at all places and times

cultural anthropology

a social, critical, reflexive science and study of learned behavior of all aspects of human behavior in specific environments - cultural relativism

cultural relativism

approaching other cultures, beliefs, and practices on their own terms without judgement

archaeology

study of material culture, physical remains, and spaces/things left behind to understand past cultures

linguistic anthropology

study of language structure and evolution and its influence on social and cultural contexts

biological anthropology

study of evolution of humans and their non/living relatives through biology and genetics on social/cultural influence

ethnography

research method of obtaining info on a culture from the inside perspective

participant observation

research method where the researcher immerses themselves in a group’s daily life, environment, culture, and activities to receive data

material culture

the study of objects left behind by other humans to better understand their social lives and values

features

collections of artifacts

genetics

study of transmission of genes between populations and variations of ancient DNA

primatology

study of nonhuman primate behavior and biology

osteology

study of skeletal biology including morphology, physiology, pathology, bioarchaeology, and forensic anthro

forensic anthropolog

study that helps develop biological profiles for the unidentified in past and modern day with factors like height, death age, COD, ancestry, trauma, diseases

human biology

study of relationship between human biology & the environment and the responses to adaptation and variability on growth, development, and health

paleoanthropology

study of human evolution and fossil ancestors with bones

foodways

focus on evolution and the impacts of environment and location on diet

Franz Boas

Earnest Hooton

Sherwood Washburn

endoplasmic reticulum

Gregor Mendel

dichotomous variation

Mendel’s law of segregation

Mendel’s law of independent assortment

codominance

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linkage

assortment

qualitative variation

quantitative variation

polygenic traits

Frederick Douglass

fixity of species

Aristotle

Scala Naturae / The Great Chain of Being

monogenism

Bishop James Ussher

Al-Jahiz

scientific revolution

species

John Ray

Carolus Linneaus / Carl von Linne

Systemae Naturae

binomial nomenclature

Georges Cuvier

scientific racialism

Georges-Louis Leclerc / Comte de Buffon

comparative anatomy

catastrophism

James Hutton

uniformitarianism

Charles Lyell

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

acquired characteristics

histone

temperature-dependent sex determination

genetic sex determination

bipotential gonad

August Weismann

Thomas Maltus

carrying capacity