ANTH100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paranthropus Boisei, Paranthropus, Carl Linnaeus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Keriann Mc Googan

Document Summary

Father joseph-francois lafitau first to apply anthropology in canada. Ethnology cultural behavioural patterns; ethnography study of human societies; archaeology analyzing material remains. Biological anthropology evolution, darwin, biology and culture. Sub-disciplines include paleoanthropology, primatology, human biology, and skeletal biology. Linnaeus taxonomy, included humans in classification, gave humans 4 categories. Georges cuvier catastrophism, direct contradiction of lamarck. Thomas malthus essay on the principle of population; bell-curve of popularity. Charles darwin natural selection, sexual reproduction increases variation, difficulty explaining source of variation. Alfred russel wallace independently discovered natural selection. Protein synthesis transcription (forms mrna) and translation (mrna arrives at ribosome and message is translated into groups of 3 mrna bases called codons) Meiosis increases genetic variation by providing a random assortment of chromosomes. Gregor mendel principle of segregation, principle of dominance and recessiveness, and principle of independent assortment. Variation maintained by mutation, gene flow, genetic drift (founder effect), recombination; genetic variation greater within racial groups than between them.