ARCH 131 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, A. E. Douglass, Fission Track Dating
28 Aug 2016
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Davidson black: canadian anatomist who was able to declare sinanthropus pekinesis (peeking man) Use fieldwork to make generalized remarks about them. Physical anthropology: look at bones, teeth, diseases, and our primitive relatives. Linguistic anthropology: explores languages, their relationship to culture, and how fragments of language can be used as important sources of historical information. Archeology: digs into the past, like a detective trying to find who are what happened here. Species: name is not capitalized, but is italicized. Genetics: the branch of biology concerned with the study of nucleotide bases, genes, and dna to better understand heredity and population variation. Paleoanthropology: involves the study of fossil evidence for the signs of human evolution. Missing link: the species that forms thee last common link between humans and non- human primates. Donald johanson: the discoverer of lucy , the skeleton of a female australopithecus afarensis. Anthropometry: the measurement of the human body, particular to the human skeleton.
