total of tradions values and beliefs of people and is what seperates us from else
theory of aquired traits a.k.a Lamarkiasm
discredited theory of evolutionary change says changed in individuals if thing is used or not and therofore passed to next generation(ec. cat no tail baby no tail) helped antecedent darwins theory
mendels law of segregation
in a diploid organism chromosomes in a pair segregate randomly into sex cells during meiosis
mendels law of independent assortment
genes found on different chromosomes are sorted into sex cells independetly of one another so the segregation of one pair of chromsomes not affect other
uniformitarianism
thoery that says the natural world today is the same from the past
karyotype
shows chromosomes in a single somatic cell(how many chromosomes someone has)
creationism
science baced up by the church (bible) only thing they had
catastrophism
theory said creations wiped out earilier life froms on earth(noahs ark)
natural selection
the divesification of species (biological change in species)DARWIN
great chain of being
idea that all organisms existed in hiercy ladder people on top (one of the reasons science barely progressed)
Natural theology
branch of theology based on reason and ordinary experience
Non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA)
Stephen Jay Gould that "science and religion do not glower at each other but completely different"
blending theory of inheritence
thought inherited traits were determined, randomly, from a range bounded by the homologous traits found in the parents(short+tall=average)
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Card Set
Anthropolgy CONCEPTS!
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BE SURE TO DESCRIBE concepts in own words and say why important to anthropology.