CSI
This type of identification can strongly suggest who someone is but cannot legally seal the deal.
What is Presumptive ID?
The chimp who tested Noam Chomsky's theory of language.
Who is Nim Chimpsky?
The largest known mass child sacrifice in human history took place in this country.
What is Peru?
Short, manageable challenges fall into this type of stress.
What is acute/Eustress?
Human variation that changes gradually across geography is described this way.
What is clinal variation?
These facilities study human decomposition under real environmental conditions to improve estimates of PMI.
What are Body Farms?
This brain region is central for producing speech.
What is Broca's area?
The children at Huanchaquito showed this type of trauma pattern?
What are cut sternum? what are pulled up ribs?
Stress becomes harmful when it shifts into this drawn out state.
What is chronic stress?
The flawed idea that race categories reflect fixed biological types.
What is essentialism or biological determinism?
When gravity pulls blood to the lowest parts of a body, this stage of postmortem change appears.
What is livor mortis?
The idea that words and sounds carry specific meaning
What is semantics?
This climatic event likely contributed to the community’s decision to perform the sacrifice.
What is El Nino?
When chronically elevated, this hormone causes trouble for physiological systems.
What is cortisol?
Before genetic adaptation for lactase persistence, humans made milk safer to consume through this cultural technique.
What is fermentation?
This waxy fat forms in damp environments and can preserve remains in surprising ways.
What is adipocere?
When you describe something from the past or future, you are using this feature of language.
What is displacement?
Ropes, textiles, and deep footprints revealed that the sacrifice happened when the ground was in this condition.
What is muddy or wet?
This rapid response system kicks in first when exposed to a threat.
What is the SAM system (sympathetic adrenal medullary system)?
This ecological rule predicts larger body mass in colder environments.
What is Bergmann's rule?
This process begins when a body’s own enzymes start breaking down cells and tissues even before microbes become active.
What is autolysis?
The morphological difference between humans and chimpanzees that allows humans to produce spoken language.
Evidence from Huanchaquito shows that children exhibited what manner of death?
What is homicide? sacrifice? WHAT WAS THE EVIDENCE?
Thermal imaging detects tiny shifts in surface temperature because stress triggers vasoconstriction in this region of the face, which makes it a reliable window into autonomic activation.
What is the nasal area or nose tip?
These are the primary genetic reasons that biological race categories do not match human biology.
What is more variation within populations than between them?
What is homogeneous?
What is clinal variation in phenotypic traits that are weaponized?