Theme 1
This perspective is seen through a 30-feet type of lens
What is holistic perspective?
Skull feature that indicates bipedalism
What is foramen magnum?
A concept that is socially real but not biologically real
What is race?
Study of a particular culture
What is ethnography?
Three things to allow for natural selection
What is variability, invertibility, and reproductive success?
The idea that all species are related through common ancestry.
What is the tree of life?
This genus includes “Lucy,” a famous early hominin
What is Australopithecus?
Things learned in communities as a shared worldview
What is culture?
Infrastructure, social, and super as a way to understand culture
What is the barrel model?
Three traits that allows for bipedalism
What is S-curve spine, Arched feet, and bow shaped pelvis? (can be answer not listed)
These are four mechanisms of evolution
What are mutation, natural selection gene flow, and genetic drift?
These are archaic humans
Viewing culture in context
What is cultural relativism?
Understanding and learning about another culture for the purposes of an ethnography
What is participant observation?
First hominin to use stone tools (hint: Oldowan)
What is Homo habilis?
They have prehensile tails
What is new world monkeys?
What is agriculture?
Subconscious knowledge of a culture/worldview
Subsistence mode that has surplus of food
What is agriculture & industrial?
How words are organized and combined to make a sentence; the order of the words.
What is syntax
What is Speciation?
Archeological data that is intentionally made but not moveable/portable
What is feature?
The idea that traits do not come as a package
What is independent assortment?
Family household training you to be either independent or dependent/interdepent
What is enculturation unit?
The reason not everyone in the world has darker skin
What is vitamin D