ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 72: First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Macroevolution, Butler Act
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Shared, socially learned knowledge and patterns of behavior of some human group. Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one"s own culture. The idea that a person"s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person"s own culture, rather than judged against the criteria of another. Is a term used in anthropology and sociology in relation to aspects of the behavior and society of citizens of the united states of america. The pair of genes an organism carries for a particular trait. Include mutation, natural selection, population size (genetic drift, founder"s effect), and gene flow. Scientists think that species with a shorter evolution evolved mostly by punctuated equilibrium, and those with a longer evolution evolved mostly by gradualism. The diversification of a group of organisms into forms filling different ecological niches. Occurs within a single evolutionary line without the branching of adaptive radiation.