ANTH 1006 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sockeye Salmon, Jonathan Weiner, Atlantic Cod

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Before the Sixties: Conrad Kottak
Ethnography: firsthand study of local culture + social life
Longitudinal fieldwork: long term, ongoing
Location: Arembepe 1962 (Brazil) 55 miles from Salvador
Big Well: where ppl got their drinking water
Or freshwater lagoon --> contamination led to parasites and malnutrition
Build rapport: get locals to trust you enough to give truthful answers
Necessary before taking a census
Project - race relations, what factors determined racial identity?
Difference between sociologists & anthropologists
Sociologists: people fill out their own forms, distribute questionnaire by mail or hire
research assistants
Anthropologists: Do everything themselves
Microproject: manageable, can produce research paper
Malinowskian approach: holistic overview of a population
Culture shock: set of feelings of being in an alien setting
Life in Arembepe --> moon, weather,
Sea was source of life
Evolution in Action: Jonathan Weiner
Darwin thought he was a plodder
Estimated new species would take 10-14k generations to arise
Recently has been proven to be much faster
1973 Peter & Rosemary Grant began study in Galapagos Island of Darwin’s finches
Main study site Daphne Major
Finches rapidly evolving, beak changes
BMP4 gene is what shapes the beaks (more = bigger beak)
1986 John A Endler studied Trinidadian guppies, Natural Selection in the Wild
Examples of Rapid Evolution
Bighorn rams on Ram Mt in Alberta, Canada - since large rams are hunted, they have
grown smaller since
Atlantic cod had better chance of survival if they were small due to fishing
Andrew Hendry McGill Uni study of Sockeye salmon
Peppered moths
Certain moths on British Isles evolve to darker form when industrial polution darkened
tree trunks
After trees lightened again w/ clean air acts, moths lightened again
Dim Forest, Bright Chimps: Christophe Boesche, Hedwige Boesch-Achermann
Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, 1985
Chimps are meat eaters too
Brutus dominant male of 70 member chip group
Hunters will share meat with their friends and relatives
Use of natural hammers to crack open hard shelled nuts
Tai forest chimps were first observed to do this
Diff than jane goodall’s chimps who only used sticks to get termites from mound
Interesting: hunt cooperatively
1953 Raymond Dart: group hunting and cooperation key ingredients in evolution of Homo sapiens
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Ethnography: firsthand study of local culture + social life. Location: arembepe 1962 (brazil) 55 miles from salvador. Big well: where ppl got their drinking water. Or freshwater lagoon --> contamination led to parasites and malnutrition. Build rapport: get locals to trust you enough to give truthful answers. Sociologists: people fill out their own forms, distribute questionnaire by mail or hire research assistants. Malinowskian approach: holistic overview of a population. Culture shock: set of feelings of being in an alien setting. Estimated new species would take 10-14k generations to arise. Recently has been proven to be much faster. 1973 peter & rosemary grant began study in galapagos island of darwin"s finches. Bmp4 gene is what shapes the beaks (more = bigger beak) 1986 john a endler studied trinidadian guppies, natural selection in the wild. Bighorn rams on ram mt in alberta, canada - since large rams are hunted, they have grown smaller since.

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