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cyctic fibrosis is relativley common in what populations?
recessive or dominant trait?
It is rare in what populations?
- European
- recessive
- Asiatic and African populations
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Tay-sachs allele is associated with what population?
Ashkenazi Jews
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Two major factors that establish high frequencies of of particular alleles in specific populations?
- inbreeding; consanguinous matings
- founder principal
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balanced polymorphism in African population?
other possible emamples of balanced polymorphism? (4)
- sickle-cell anemia trait
- cystic fibrosis
- phenylketonuria
- schitzophrenia
- Tay-sachs disease
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why have balanced polymorphims mostly lost their selective advantge?
modern technology
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...movements and ...patterns are cultually tempered.
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examples of body alteration (8)
- circumcision
- clitoridectomy
- scarification
- body piercing
- tatooing
- foot binding
- cranial deformation
- plastic surgery
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women of...slit their earlobes and draw the lobes down to the sholder
Borneo
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one head binding culture
Mangbetu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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why do a large number of female skeletons at Hecienda Ayalan, Equador had unusual bony extentions on the metatarsals and phalangies?
what kind of alteration is this?
- result of extreme hyperflexion of the metatarsophalangeal joints kneeling with the bodies weight on the feet. women assume the position when they grind corn.
- nondeliberate/cultural
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people are natural ...
classifiers
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Classification of some class of phenemona based on cultural tradition? non-scientific
folk taxonomy
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Name Navahos of the American Southwest call themselves.
meaning?
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how did the Greeks divide humanity?
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A taxonomic division of a species differing biologically in a significant number of genetic characteristics from other races of the same species.
race
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A group of people who share a common culture including traditions, language, religion, and history
ethinic group
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a means of discovering the processes that create the phenomenon being classified.
what other model has a similar function?
- scientific classification
- the Hardy-Weinberg equation
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what kind of ideas are folk taxonomies commmonly based on?
scientific classification bust by derived from...
- ethnocentric ideas; folklore and stereotypes
- empirical studies
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Name of German physician and his five races. 1752
- Johann Fredrich Blumenbach
- Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, Malayan, and American
- (Etiopian became Negro)
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First person to apply systematic criteria to human classification?
Catagories?
- Carolus Linnaeus (1707)
- H. sapiens Africanus negreus (black)
- H. sapiens Americanus rubescens (red)
- H. sapiens Asiaticus fucus (darkish)
- H. sapiens Europeus albescens (white)
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he decided cephalic index is an important criterion for classifing people.
Anders Retzius (1796)
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The bredth of the head related to it's length.
cephalic index
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cephalic index formula
head breadth/head length*100=
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published classification based on analysis of the frequencies of specific blood types.
his classifaications?
when?
- William Boyd
- Early European
- European
- African
- Asiatic
- American Indian
- Australoid
- 1950
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classification based on the fossil record by who?
catagories?
when?
- Carlton S. Coon
- Australoids
- Mongoloids
- Caucasoids
- Congoids (dark-skinned Africans)
- Capoids (the San and Hottentots of southern Arfica)
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what did Carlton Coon think about each of his five races?
- they differentiated before the evolution of Homo sapiens.
- they became human at different times
- same races have been human longer than others
- that accounts for differences in cultural development
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A major divison of humankind into large geographical areas wherin people resemble one another more closely that they resemble people in different geographical areas
geographical race
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who is associated with the concept of geographical race?
when?
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what mechanism accounts for geographical race?
gene flow
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how many people migrated to the united states between 1845 and 1854?
from 1881-1920?
from which countries mostly?
- 3 million
- 23.5 million
- Great Britain
- Italy
- Germany
- Spain
- Russia
- Protugal
- Sweden
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