ANTH 1001 : Anthropology Notes For Test 1
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Frank boas: (late 1800"s early 1900"s) set the standard for how. American anthropology is taught today, some consider him the father of american anthropology. We thank him for the 4 field approach to anthropology. He was the first to say when studying humans you must be holistic" worked at columbia university. (margaret mead, ruth benedict) Ales hrdlicka: the great organizer, very interested in cranial variation. Started the american journal of physical anthropology, and. Homunculus: the idea that a fully formed human passed through the sperm. Blending inheritance: the idea that offspring are simply a mix of the parents. Cells: basic unit of life, prokaryotic-simple life forms that have no nucleus, eukaryotic-do have a nucleus, also have organelles. Somatic cells are cells that make up the body tissue. Gametes are the sex cells that are involved in reproduction. Dna consists of 2 chains of nucleotides (sugar + phosphate + base) 1000"s of genes template for production of proteins homoplasmic.
