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Human Variation Final
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Anthropology
Graduate
04/24/2011

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Earliest Candidate For Modern Humans
Definition
150,000-195,000-Trinkhaus
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Green 2008
Definition

Sequenced mitochondrial genome

 

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Green 2010
Definition

Sequenced whole Neanderthal genome, found admixture

 

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Henn et al. 2011
Definition

Bushmen groups studied reveals theory that modern humans might have been from south africa

 

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Human dispersal theories
Definition

Out of Africa

Multiregional hypothesis

 

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Mitochondrial Eve
Definition

Referred to by Wilson and Caan-molecular clock referers to women that mitochondrial dna comes from

 

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Is there transistion from paleo to archaic cranial articles
Definition
Jantz and Owsley, Neves powell found paleoindians very distinct from n.a. groups
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Bergmann's rule
Definition
Mass increases but surface area decreases for heat retention. 
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Allen's rule
Definition

colder climates, shorter appendages, with increased mass

Warm climates longer apendages to increase surface area

Ex. African woman vs. inuit

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Quanitative Genetics
Definition

Key to studying of anthropomorphic trait variation, osteometrics/dental metrics, anthropometrics and dentopormetrics. 

 

·      Phenotypic Variation is proportional to additive Genetic Variance

 

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Rmet
Definition

Project looked at cranial metric variation and its differences


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Allometry
Definition

the change in the size of one biological measure with respect to another measure

Y=aX^b

X and Y are the biological measures

a is a constant

b is scaling exponent

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Siler Model
Definition
probability of Death=immature risk x residual risk x senescent risk
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Malthus Theory
Definition

population increase would out phase increases in the means of subsistence

technology --> environment resources->population

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Boserup
Definition
population-drives technology--> drives environment resources
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Growth disruptions in Tissue
Definition

Harris LInes

Enamel Hypoplasia

Stunted Growth

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Longitudinal Studies
Definition
mulitple measures of one individuals, typically small samples
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Cross sectional sectionals
Definition
large sample single observation on each individual
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Dental Development
Definition
Key for modern and paleoanth
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Secular Changes in Human Populations
Definition
Changes that take place over time, both positive and negative that do not affect all parts of body equally, ex. height an weight
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Secular Trend Keys
Definition

Nutrition

Health Care, Exposure, Gene Flow

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Demographic Parameters
Definition
Life expectancy at Birth, Fertility, Mortality, Growth Rate, Migration, Stable populations, adn Longevity of the population-Chamberlain
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Post Industrial Demographics
Definition
rapidly expanding populations of older ages. 
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