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Neutral Mutations

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All living organisms that reproduce sexually have these mutations that have no effect on how you survive.
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Passive Mutations with no effect

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Negative Mutations

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Mutations that makes iy difficult or even impossible for individuals to survive.

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Positive Mutations

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A type of mutation that has positive effect on an organism

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Random mating

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Process whereby every allele has an equal chance of being passed onto the next generation
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You don’t choose what allele (Genetic trait) you pass on

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What is Anthropology?

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The study of nature, human society, human language, and the human past

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What is applied anthropology?

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The subfield of anthropology in which anthropologists use information gathered from other anthropological specialties to solve practical cross-cultural problems

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Archaeology

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The Specialty of anthropology that studies the human past by analyzing material remains left behind by earlier societies

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Organisms (in this case, human beings) whose defining features are co-determined by biological and cultural factors

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Biocultural organisms

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The specialty of anthropology that looks at human beings as biological organisms and tries to discover what characteristics make them different from other organisms and what characteristics they share

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Biological anthropology

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A characteristic of the anthropological perspective that requires anthropologists to study similarities and differences across as many human societies as possible before generalizing about human beings and their activities
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The study of humans as biological organism

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Comparison

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What is Cultural Anthropology

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The study of living peoples and their culture primarily though their behaviours and beliefs

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What is culture?

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Sets of learned behavior,ideas and material goods that human beings share as members of society

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What is design anthropology

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The use of anthropological methods to develop new product ideas

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What is ethnography

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Firsthand observations of a particular culture

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What is ethnology

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The comparative study of two or more cultures

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What is evolution?

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The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

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An extended period of close involvement with the people in whose way of life anthropologists are interested, during which anthropologists ordinarily collect most of their data

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Fieldwork

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What is gender?

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The culturally constructed roles assigned to males or females, which vary considerably from society to society

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What is globalization?

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Reshaping of local conditions by powerful global forces on an ever-intensifying scale

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What is Holistic?

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Looking at something as a whole
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How anthropology tries to integrate all that is known about human beings and their activities

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What are informants in anthropology?

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People in particular who work with anthropologists and provide them with insights about the local way of life. Also called respondants, collaberators, teachers or friends

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What is language?

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The system of arbitrary vocal symbol used to encode one’s experience of the world and others

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What is Linguistic anthropology?

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The specialty of anthropology concerned with the study of human languages

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What is paleoanthropology

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The study of human fossils and associated remains to understand human evolution

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What is primatology?

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The study of non-human primates, the closest living relatives of human beings

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What are Races?

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Social groupings that allegedly reflect biological differences

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What is racism defined?

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The systematic oppression of members of one or more socially defined “Race”

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What is sex? ;)

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The physical characteristics that traditionally distinguish two kinds of humans, females and males.

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What distinguishes differences between sex?

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Body shapes, distribution of body hair, reproductive organs, sex chromosomes

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What is Material Culture?

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Objects created or shaped by humans and given meaning through cultural practices

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What is Medical Anthropology?

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The specialty of anthropology that concerns itself with human health–the factors that contribute to disease or illness and the ways that human populations deal with disease or illness

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What are the main subfields of anthropology?

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Cultural anthropology, Biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and Archaeology

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What is the “Holistic Approach” in Anthropology

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How everything we do is related within our culture

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How do anthropologists use comparative perspective?

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They use comparative perspective to understand similarities and differences within and between human goups

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What is cultural relativism?

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Not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal

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What are ethnolinguistics

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The study of human languages

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Participant Observation

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Participating within the community you’re observing

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Darwin’s Evidence

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Domesticated plants and animals
Geographic distribution of life forms

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How are domesticated plants and animals evidence to Darwin’s evolution theory

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We’ve greatly changed/evolved what we domesticated to be ideal to our needs

examples: corn and cown

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Example of Geographic distribution of life forms

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Galapagos flinches lived in isolation after being separated from main land flinches and evolved to adapt to the isles

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Vestigial organs

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Organs without a function

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What is Mandels first principle?

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When we are born we receive a copy of a characteristic from both parents. But only one will pass on when we reproduce.

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Genotype

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The genes you inherit

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PHenotype

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Physical aspect you inherit

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