ARCL-1006EL Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Bipedalism, Primate, Human Evolution
20 Nov 2018
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January, 17, 2018: recap of mendel"s peas experiment, mendel"s conclusions. Jan 24, 2018: cline: gradual change in frequency or occurrence of something over space. Human biological variation race: contributors to variation in skin colour, oxidized hemoglobin (red, from red blood cells, melanin produced by melanocytes in epidermis, mc1r- coded gene, skin colour is polygenic- not a mendelian trait. Jan 29, 2018: reasons why we study primates. Jan 31, 2018: all about noses, strepsirrhini. Why: major artifact class: lithic (chipped // groundstone, two reasons: it"s a stone- does not break down easily. Houses households: who makes up the basic social house holds . Settlements communities: reflections of the communities. Regions polities: larger social political groups, places that may have some sort of government. Burial grounds differences in social and economic status: see the difference between people, size and nature. Weren"t simply nuclear families but also the rest of that family.
