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Human Evolution and Diversity

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Decks in this class (18)

1- Introduction to biological Anthropology
5 interesting things about humans 1,
5 misconceptions about human evol...,
Why was evolution so revolutionar...
11  cards
2- Evolutionary theory
How have definitions of evolution...,
Do individuals evolve 2,
Was darwin the first to propose a...
22  cards
3 - Evolutionary genetics
Darwin s model of inheritance 1,
Darwins model of inheritance 2,
What s the weissman barrier 3
19  cards
Human adaptation
Do humans have lots of genetic va...,
Are we one species 2,
Why study genetic variation 3
22  cards
6 - intro to paleoanthropology
Hominids 1,
Hominid african ape lineage split 2,
What two parts is the skull made ...
25  cards
5 - genes and culture
Behavioural innovation 1,
Is culture unique to humans 2,
What is cultural evolution 3
11  cards
7 - early human evolution
Australopith species and dates 1,
When was the first australopith d...,
Second found australopith 3
31  cards
8 - later human evolution
Geological time 1,
Homo species continued 2,
Homo erectus a big shift 3
30  cards
9 - new finds in human evolution
Fossil footprints new findings 1 1,
Fossil footprints new findings 2 2,
Fossil footprints new findings 3 3
22  cards
10 - evolution of subsistence behaviours
Three major patterns of human sub...,
Subsistence biology and behaviour...,
Interrelationship subsistence bio...
24  cards
17 - Brains, cognition and culture
Drawbacks of a large brain 1,
Social brain hypothesis history 2,
Evidence for the social brain hyp...
12  cards
18- Human co-operation
What is cooperation and altruism 1,
Cooperation example 2,
Altruism example 3
21  cards
19 - Human sexuality
Sexual selection 1,
Peacocks 2,
Darwin females and males 3
21  cards
11 - primate taxonomy and diversity
Why study primates 1,
Types of primate traits 2,
Visual specialisation 3
20  cards
12 - strepsirrhines
Misconceptions about strepsirrhin...,
Strepsirrhines in numbers 2,
Evolutionary history 3
36  cards
15 - hypothesis testing
What is the scientific method 1,
Theory hypotheses and predictions 2,
What makes a hypothesis scientific 3
11  cards
16 - studying the evolution of behaviour
John maynard smith quote 1,
Darwin on human behaviour 2,
More important quotes on powerpoi...
14  cards
13- Tarsiers and platyrrhines
Tarsiers 1 1,
Tarsiers 2 2,
Tarsiers 3 3
28  cards

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