ANTH 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Steatopygia, Gradualism, Speciation
3 Oct 2013
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Acheulian tools: most famous was the hand axe (symmetrical, edged, pointed, and bifacial). Allele: a specific gene that represents a trait. Anthropology: holistic study of humankind and the changes they go through. Artifact: a material human made object that represents a previous era of life. Bergmens and allens rules: bergman"s is you have a fatter body in cold and thinner in the heat. Allen"s is animals in colder have short limbs and in hotter have long. Bipedal: walks on two feet: darwin: natural selection. Cephalic index: difference in the head measurements of different populations. Cladistics: animals and plants proportional to the things they have in common. Clinal: the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species. Cultural relativity: the ability to appreciate and understand the worth of others an their culture. Diffusion: spreading out of a population over an area of land.
