Midterm Flashcards
The lower _____ has evidence of both gradualism and adaptive radiation in human evolution, leading to many species of hominins
palaeolithic
The human capacity for culture relies on many things, but the key piece that allow culture to change are selection and ______
innovation
______ may be positive, negative, or neutral
mutations
Platyrrhini have ______ fingers, toes, and tails
prehensile
A trait that occurs because of common ancestry is referred to as a ______
homology
This suborder of primates includes lemurs, but not tarsiers
strepsirhini
Cultural ______ is a debunked hypothesis that suggested that humans are forced to behave in a particular way because of our culture
determinism
Reduced ______ is a primate evolutionary trend that continues throughout human evolution, leading up to our species
prognathism
_______ is the study of processes that affect bones, for example weathering, scavenging, and fossilization
taphonomy
This characteristic of the anthropological lens would suggest that we need to understand humans both in terms of culture and biology, for example
Holism
Ethnography
- one culture in detail
Ethnology
- compares across cultures
Evolution
- change over time
Culture
- learned behaviours and ideas
Subfields of anthropology (4, kinda 5)
- biological
- cultural
- linguistic
- archaeology
(- applied)
Typology
- study of classes with common characteristics
Emic
- cultural insiders view
Etic
- outside observer’s view
Cultural relativism
- all cultures equally valid
- understanding the whole
Enculturation
- process of a child learning their culture
4 aspects of culture
- learned
- symbolic
- shared
- holistic
ethnocentrism
- others are wrong or abnormal for being different than us
- our way of life is correct
How many species of primates?
- around 500
common primate characteristics
- prehensibility
- large brains
- diverse diets
- forward facing eyes
