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Aristotle
Definition
Greek Philosopher who hypothesized the "Great Chain of Being"
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James Ussher
Definition
Irish Archbishop who calculated the date of creation (from the bible) to about 4004 BCE
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John Lightfoot
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English Churchman who elaborated on James Ussher's date of creation by adding Oct 23, 9am
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Georges Cuvier
Definition
French naturalist, created the idea of Catastrophism, explanined extinct fossil species as killed by fire and flood and explained new creations ontop of old catastrophies in stratigraphy
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Charles Lyell
Definition
British Geologist who published "Principles of Geology" the recognized the effects of natural processes and how the could sufficiently account for the past
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Alfred Wegener
Definition
German geophysist who published "Origins of Continents and Oceans" which established the idea of continental drift, and plate tectonics
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Charles Darwin
Definition
British naturalist who went aboard the HMS beagle, published "The Origin of Species" and established the idea of evolution
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Alfred Wallace
Definition
British naturalist who theorized the idea of 'natural selection' at the same time as Charles Darwin and Coannounced his findings with him at the Linnean Society. He also published "Geographical Distribution of Animals" that disucssed natural bariers effect on evolution
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Sam Wilberforce
Definition
British Bishop, great public speaker, who argued against Darwin's theory of evolution
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Thomas Huxley
Definition
aka "Darwins Bulldog," public speaker and debater on Darwins behalf
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Definition
French naturalist that established the idea of "Lamarkian Inheritance" or the inheritance of aquired characteristics through reproduction
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Johan Gregor Mendel
Definition
Augustian Monk who's experiments with pea plants established modern genetics, His work was published in "Natural History society of Braun" but forgotten. It was rediscovered in 1900 by 5 different research groups.
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Richard Speck
Definition
Mass Murderer who's lawyer pleaded that because of his XYY chromosome disease he was innately bound by genetics to crime. After his death it was discovered that he didn't have the disease.
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James Watson
Definition
Won Nobel Prize for discovering DNA, made controversial comments regarding genetics - intelligence relationships and Eugenics
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Francis Crick
Definition
Won Nobel Prize for discovering DNA
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Maurice Wilikin
Definition
Asissted Watson & Crick in discovering DNA, showed Watson & Crick the xray research of Rosalind Franklin without her permission
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Rosalind Franklin
Definition
Xray research paved the way for the discovery of DNA, was shown without her permission to Watson & Crick by Maurice Wilkin
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Thomas Jefferson
Definition
3rd president of The US. Slave owner himself even though he proposed an act to outlaw slavery. He had children with one slave, Sally Hemmings
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Sally Hemmings
Definition
Slave of Thomas Jefferson who had his children and was later freed
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Karl Landsteiner
Definition
Austrian biologist who discovered the ABO blood groupings
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John Woodall
Definition
English military surgeon who wrote "the surgeons mate" and advised sailors to eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables to avoid getting scurvy
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John Franklin
Definition
British Navy captain who's crew stored fruits and vegetables in lead containers and got lead poisoning. They were attempting to find the North-West passge. They never returned home.
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Franz Josef Gall
Definition
Founder of the psuedo science of phrenology, measurements of the human skull attributed to mental makeup.
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Norm Sauer's
Definition
Forensic Anthropologist, Michigan State University
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Pieter Camper
Definition
Dutch scientist who studied comparative anatomy of different animals. He also started the idea of racial "facial angles"
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Johan Blumenbach
Definition
German anthropologist who studied comparitive anatomy. He established a concept of 5 races based on skull studies (Caucasian, Mongolian, Malaysian, Ethiopian, American)
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Anders Retzius
Definition
Swedish professor of anatomy who established the cephalic index (skull measurements)
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Franz Boas
Definition
"Father of American Anthropology," faught all forms of racism his whole life, contantly strived for empirical data. Wrote little ethongraphy
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Paul Broca
Definition
French surgeon who discoverd the speech centers of the brain in the frontal lobes (contradicting the ideas of phrenology), also advanced the science of cranial anthropometry
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Thomas Dwight
Definition
American physician, anatomist and teacher, first to tesify in court on the examination of human remains
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T. Dale Stewart
Definition
Authored "Essentials of Forensic Anthropology" (1979) regarded as founder of modern forensic anthropology
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Clyde Snow
Definition
Famous Forensic Anthropologist, examined JFK. Also famous for his activism such as the Argentinian mass graves after their revolution.
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Bill Bass
Definition
Forensic Anthropologist, founded "The Body Farm," Lab to measure human decomposition
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Carl Bergmann
Definition
German biologist who created Bergmann's rule - body shape defined by equatorial temperatures.
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John Allen
Definition
created Allen's rule - body extremities are shorter in colder climates to conserve body heat.
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Natural Selection
Definition
the process by which charateristics of organisms are either positively selected for increasing the organisms ability to survive and reproduce or negatively selected for not doing so.
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Anthropology
Definition
Science of humans
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Anthropos
Definition
Greek for Human or man
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Logos
Definition
Greek for studying
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Cultural Anthropology
Definition
study of culture variation among humans
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Linguistic Anthropology
Definition
study of human language variation, form and structure
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Biological/Physical Anthropology
Definition
study of physical human variation, and evolution
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Archaeology
Definition
study of human history through material artifacts
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Paleoanthropology
Definition
study of ancient humans from hominid fossil evidence
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Human Variation
Definition
... human variation.
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Genetics
Definition
study of genes
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Primatology
Definition
Study of primates
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Paleontology
Definition
study of prehistoric life (dinosaurs)
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Mitochondrial Eve
Definition
hypothetical first human women based on global comparisson of mtDNA
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Fixity of Species
Definition
idea that a species is created once and never changes
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Creation
Definition
idea that a "god" created everything
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The Great Chain of Being
Definition
idea that a "god" created everything in a specific heirarchical system with inferior and superior races of humans
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Catastrophism
Definition
explanined extinct fossil species as killed by fire and flood and explained new creations ontop of old catastrophies in stratigraphy
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Stratigraphy
Definition
study of layers of ground to form hypothesis about the history of that ground (by examining layers)
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Uniformitarianism
Definition
Science philosophy established by Charles Lyell that attempted to exam the present by its connection to the past, and asserted that natural processes were sufficient to account for modern 'phenomenon'
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Father of Geology
Definition
Alfred Wegener, continental drift
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Pangea
Definition
super continent that separated into todays continents
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continental drift
Definition
movement of continent land masses on the surface of the earht
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The Origins of Continents and Oceans
Definition
book by Alfred Wegener, 1915
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Plate Tectonics
Definition
study of earths plates lithosphere moves on asthenosphere
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Lithosphere
Definition
crust, upper mantle
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Asthenosphere
Definition
first layer under lithosphere
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mid-oceanic ridges
Definition
where the asthenosphere pushes up and moves plates
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Asian tsunami
Definition
tsunamis can be caused by earthquakes in the ocean
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake;
Definition
india plate slipped under asian plate momentarily
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Sumatran-Andaman earthquake
Definition
other name for 2004 indian ocean earthquake
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Laurasia
Definition
Northern part of Pangea that became the northern hemisphere, Triassic period
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Gondwanaland
Definition
southern part of pangea that became todays sourthern hemisphere, Triassic period
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Age of Dinosaurs
Definition
Jurassic 135 mya
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Age of Mammals
Definition
Cretaceous 65 mya
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Carolus Linnaeus
Definition
Swedish Naturalist who established biological nomenclature
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Binomial nomenclature
Definition
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
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Mendelian Genetics
Definition
traits are passed genetically without intermediate traits
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H.M.S. Beagle
Definition
Ship that Darwin was a naturalist aboard
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Down House
Definition
Where Darwin retired to after the HMS beagle and published most work from
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Galapagos Islands
Definition
Where Darwin made discoveries regarding the beeks of finches and their adaptation to the available food source
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Adaptive Radiation
Definition
process of separate adaptations branching to different environments from a single species
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Darwinian Fitness
Definition
How adapted an organism is to its specifc environment
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Wallace's Line
Definition
Alfred Wallace's line of genetic diversity in southeast asia
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Geographical Distribution of Animals
Definition
Alfred Wallace's book on Wallaces line
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On the Origin of Species
Definition
Darwins Book
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Darwin's bulldog
Definition
Thomas Huxley
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Principles of Inheritance
Definition
Mendels findings on genetic inheritance
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Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Definition
Jean Baptiste Lamark's book
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Lamarckian Inheritance
Definition
traits gained throughout life can be passed to offspring
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Monogenesis
Definition
single origin of life
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Polygenesis
Definition
multiple origins of life
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Tree of Life
Definition
history of organims on earth through the process of evolution
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Blending Theory of Inheritance
Definition
Lamarkian idea that an organism recieves half of its traits from each parent
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Law of Independent Segregation
Definition
heredity is in discrete units
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Genotype
Definition
theoretical corresponding sections of dna that produce a trait in the phenotype
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Phenotype
Definition
physical expression of genetic traits
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Allele
Definition
one of a number of alternative forms of the same gene
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Homozygous/heterozygous traits
Definition
homo: XX, YY - hetero: XY, YX
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Law of Independent Assortment
Definition
traits are not blended they are separate
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Proceedings of the Natural Nisiory Society of Brunn
Definition
Where Gregor Mendel published his work but it was forgotten
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Neo-Darwinism
Definition
Mendel + Darwin: preserves genetic variability, traits can be passed in genetics even if not phenotyped
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The Modem Synthesis"
Definition
"nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" (meeting at Princeton 1947)
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Prokaryotic Cell
Definition
single celled organims lacking nucleus
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Eukaryotic Cell
Definition
multicellular organisms with nucleus
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Cell Cycle
Definition
Mitosis, Synthesis, G1, G2, Apoptosis
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Mitosis
Definition
process by which cytoplasm divides into 2 daughter cells.
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Synthesis
Definition
step where DNA replication occurs
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Apoptosis
Definition
cell death
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Centromere
Definition
middle binding of a X shaped chromosome
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Chromatids
Definition
X part of a chromosome
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Cytokinensis
Definition
processs where cytoplasm is divided in cell division
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Meiosis
Definition
process by which gametes (sex cells are produced)
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Chromosomes
Definition
sections of DNA, humans have 23 pairs
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autosomes
Definition
22 pairs of non-sex chromosomes
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sex chromosomes
Definition
1 pair of sex chromosomes
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Down syndrome
Definition
47 chromosomes instead of 46
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Tb
Definition
tuberculosis, bacterial
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X and Y Chromosomes
Definition
sex chromosomes, XX female, XY male
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XYY karyotype
Definition
Klinefelter syndrome, Richard Speck claimed to have this
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Telomeres
Definition
chromosonal tips control replication by wearing away (they replicate ~50 times)
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Human Genome Project
Definition
first mapping of an entire human genome
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deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
Definition
format of genetic code
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sugar and phosphate molecules
Definition
form the backbone of dna
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Organic bases
Definition
Adenine-Thymine, Gaunine-Cytosine
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Definition
method of genetic fingerprinting where only one nucleotide is analyzed
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Restriction fragment length polymorphism
Definition
method of genetic fingerprinting where only sections of dna where major human variation exists are examined.
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
Definition
dna passed down the matrilineal line present in the chromosomes of the mitochondria
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Y-chromosome DNA
Definition
dna passed only down the male line
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Junk DNA
Definition
"non coding dna" up through the 90s we thought 95% of dna served no purpose, now we think 80% is functional
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Cambridge Reference Sequence
Definition
Aka Anderson Reference Sequence, work that led to human genome project
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JPAC
Definition
Joint POW MIA Accounting Command
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Tay-Sachs disease
Definition
autosomal recessive disorder resulting in death byage 4
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Epigenetics
Definition
lifestyle and enviroment can influence genes
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populations
Definition
groups of interbreeding organisms in a gene pool
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Definition
phenotype AA: Aa : aa, ratio 1:2:1
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genetic equilibrium
Definition
25% : 50%: 25%
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Mutation
Definition
random change in genetic code
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Gene flow
Definition
population movement: emigration, immigration, trade, warfare, intermixing of breeding groups
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Genetic Drift
Definition
populations separated by physical barrier, left in exclusivity, drift genetically from species
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Inbreeding
Definition
reproduction with species members too similar to one in genetic makeup
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Hapbsburg jaw
Definition
genetic inbreeding disease from the Habsburg royal family
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positive assortive mating
Definition
mating pattern where individuals mate with similar genotypes and phenotypes
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Traits of Simple Inheritance
Definition
controlled by single location on gene
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Traits of Complex Inheritance
Definition
traits that are polygenic and multifactorial
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Blood groups
Definition
ABO
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Hemoglobin
Definition
red blood cell protein, 95% of RBC
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Red blood cells
Definition
deliver oxygen
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White blood cells
Definition
fight infection
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Platelets
Definition
help clotting,aka Thrombocytes
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Plasma
Definition
suspension liquid, 55% of blood
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Hemostasis
Definition
process that causes bleeding to stop
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ABO Blood Group
Definition
Karl Landsteiner discovered
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International Society of Blood Tranfusion
Definition
founded in 1935 to increase research in blood transfusions
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Smallpox
Definition
type A individuals 4x more suseptible, last epidemic was in india
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Plague
Definition
major plague centers of world have lowest % of type O
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Sickle Cell Anemia
Definition
recessive genetic disorder that causes red blood cells to be cresent shaped
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sickle cell trait
Definition
heterozygous version of sickle cell that helps prevent malaria spreading
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Plasmodium
Definition
genus of infectious diseases (malaria is one)
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Anopheles
Definition
genus of mosquitos that transmit malaria
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Sexual Dimorphism
Definition
physical differences in human developement between males and females
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Bergmann and Allen Rules
Definition
body shaped determined by latitude, extremity length determined by temperature
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Ostemnalacia
Definition
(rickets) softening of bones due to lack of vitamin D
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Scurvy
Definition
disease of lack of vitamin C (from lack of fresh fruits and vegetables on long ship voyages)
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The Surgeon's Mate
Definition
book by John Woodall, about scurvy on long voyages
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Franklin Expedition
Definition
John franklins expedition where everyone contracted lead poisoning from the cans that stored fresh fruits and vegetables
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Anthropometry
Definition
measurements of humans
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phrenology
Definition
pseudo science of taking skull measurements and attributing them to racial characteristics of inteligence and so forth
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Psycograph
Definition
in phrenology it is a graphy of a persons mental traits (pseudo science)
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Orthognathic
Definition
relationship of maxilla and mandible
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Prognathic
Definition
having jaws that protrude forward
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Camper's Facial Angles
Definition
data interpreted by George Cuvier showing the superiority of facial angles of the european white race
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cephalic index
Definition
ratio of skull width to length, from the top
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Dolichocephalic index
Definition
long headed
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Mesoeephalie index
Definition
medium headed
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Brachycephalic index
Definition
short headed
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Ellis Island
Definition
where immigrants entered the united states
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Father of American Anthropology
Definition
Franz Boas
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Broca' s aphasic
Definition
loss of ability to produce language (by this part of the brain)
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Wernicke's aphasic
Definition
loss of ability to understand language in any form,but they can still produce it
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Foramen magnum
Definition
hole where the spinal cord enters the skull
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Ashkenazic Jews
Definition
very closed genetic pool, lots of inbreeding, large prevalance of Tay Sacs
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Acclimation
Definition
immediate response to stress
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Acclimatization
Definition
long term response to stress
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Developmental acclimatization
Definition
permanent physiological change
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Vasoconstriction
Definition
narrowing of blood vessels
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Vasodilation
Definition
widening of blood vessels
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Body Mass Index (BMI)
Definition
negative correlation with temperature
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African Pygmies
Definition
exception to allen, bergman rule - but probably from malnutrition, hormonal deficiency
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Stealophygia
Definition
enlarged fat distribution, buttocks and stomach
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Nasal Index
Definition
related to face size, related to temperature and humidity
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UVA
Definition
penetrates deepest, causes melanoma
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UVB
Definition
tans, vitamin D production
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UVC
Definition
doesn't penetrate deeply
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Epidermis
Definition
outermost layers of skin
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Dermis
Definition
deep layers of skin
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Melanin
Definition
tanning agents
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Melanocytes
Definition
produce melanin
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Melanocortin I receptor (MC IR)
Definition
measures need of melanin
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Spectrophotometer
Definition
measurement of light reflectivity
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Evolution of Skin Color
Definition
to protect against UV, corresponds to latitude
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Hypoxia
Definition
oxygen starvation
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Vitamin D deficiency
Definition
causes rickets
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Folate
Definition
required for cell division, especially during fetal developement
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Spina bifida
Definition
can be caused by lack of folate
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Malignant melanoma
Definition
deadly form of deap skin cancer in melanocytes
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Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Definition
"the roof of the world"
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Barometric Pressure
Definition
force of the weight of the air above
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Acute Mountain Sickness
Definition
altitude sickness
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Chest Circumference
Definition
larger with higher altitudes
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Cause of death
Definition
specific cause of death
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Anthroposcopy
Definition
visual inspection of unmeasurable features when examining the human body
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Perimortem
Definition
around time of death, during death
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Postmortem
Definition
after death
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Premortem
Definition
before time of death
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Post-mortem Interval
Definition
measure of how long the body has been dead
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Biological Profile
Definition
Sex, Age, Stature, Ancestry, Anomalies and Pathologies
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Cancellous Bone
Definition
spongy bone
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Cortical Bone
Definition
compact, hard bone
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Taphonomy
Definition
study of decaying organism overtime
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Manner of death
Definition
either Natural, Accident, Suicide, Homicide, or Undetermined.
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High Altitude Adaptation Hemoglobin
Definition
increased hemoglobin
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Subadults
Definition
before puberty
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