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Biological Anthropology
Study of Humans as a biological organismsHow our evolutionary history and biology interact with our culture and how culture is affected by our biologyBiological Anthropology helps inform effective economic and social policies, helps create effective medicine, helps avoid racist eugenics type movements, helps conservation efforts of primates TERM 2
Scientific Method
DEFINITION 2 A systematic and consistent way to conduct scientific investigations HypothesisPredictionsTest through measurement and observationsRevise HypothesisGo to step two TERM 3
Charles Darwin's Radical Idea
DEFINITION 3 Complexity of organisms and ecosystems are merely byproducts of individual animals struggling to optimize their reproductive success in their local environment TERM 4
Aristotle Father of Natural Science
DEFINITION 4 Immutability of species - Every organism created perfectlyScala Naturae - Great chain of Being - Life arranged in hierarchical fashion with humans on the top TERM 5
Darwin's Ideas
DEFINITION 5 Earth is oldGradual changes can explain geological formationsspecies have changed over timespecies can be grouped together according to degree of similarityPublishes Origin of Species
Darwin's 5 Theories
- species change2. all organisms share a common ancestry3. Evolution is gradual (not slow, gradual)4. Evolution leads to speciation5. Evolution occurs through natural selection TERM 7
Natural Selection
DEFINITION 7 More individuals are born than survive to reproductive age Some individuals are better at surviving and reproducing others These individuals will leave more descendants who will inherit theseadvantageous traits Populations will therefore change over time Differential reproductive success based on variations in heritabletraits TERM 8
Conditions for Natural Selection
DEFINITION 8 Variation in a traitinheritance of that traitdifferential reproductive success based on that trait TERM 9
Evolution
DEFINITION 9 Its NOT just change over time lots of things change over time Biological evolution is change in species over time Evolution is descent through modification Change in allele frequencies in a population over time Evolution involves genes in populations over time TERM 10
Scientific Method
DEFINITION 10 Process by which scientists seek to increase understanding, using systematic observations, measurements, experiments and principles of reason
