Anthropology and the Scientific Method
How do biological anthropologists know what they know?
pg. 93 and Figure 1.7
Name three pre-Darwinian ideas and/or thinkers that made it possible for Darwin to come up with the theory of evolution (and for Wallace to do the same independently)?
Section 2.1 in the book. See Concept Check: Pre-Darwinian Theory and Ideas pg. 147
What does DNA do?
pg. 213. Section 3.2
What characteristics contribute to primates' dietary flexibility?
pg. 472 concept check
Name some common environmental agents that can lead to genetic mutations in humans?
pg. 90
Outline the scientific method.
pg. 93, figure 1.7
What was Darwin's unique contribution to the theory of evolution?
2.2 in the textbook.
Explain the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes.
pg. 172
What are the characteristics and features of primate parenting?
pg. 479
What does cline refer to?
pg. 367
What are the four sub-disciplines of anthropology, and what do each of them do?
pg. 63-77 and Figure 1.1
What are the four forces of evolution, and what can they tell us about populations?
Sections 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 in the textbook.
Explain what a genotype is, what alleles are, and where our alleles come from.
pg. 169
What are the differences between male and female primate reproductive strategies?
pg. 544
What are the four levels of adaptation?
pg. 389 Section 5.3
What do we mean when we say that anthropology is a holistic science?
pg. 69
How does the peppered moth case study demonstrate natural selection?
pg. 310-316. Figure 4.12; 4.13
What are the two types of cell division, and how do each of them affect genetic variation?
Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
What types of advantages in terms of evolutionary fitness do cooperative and altruistic behaviors yield?
pg. 545-552
Define Bergmann's rule and Allen's rule.
pg. 391
What makes humans so different from other mammals? Name six characteristics.
pg. 81-91
What is evolutionary fitness?
pg. 308. Section 4.4
Define the terms pleiotropy, codominant, polygenic, and omnigenic.
pg. 253-256
Why study primates?
pg. 442-443
Define Wolff's law
pg. 419