What is DUNBAR's theory about similarities between humans and apes?
Humans have an imagination - apes don't.
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What is a phenotype?
Human genotype (DNA) combined with our environment.
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What is bipedalism?
Walking on two legs.
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What did anthropologists originally believe when it came to hominins + homosapiens?
Homosapiens descended from hominin in a single line.
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What do anthropologists believe now when it comes to hominins and homosapiens?
Homosapiens and hominin lived side by side.
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What is Darwin's theory of evolution?
New species develop from existing ones through a long and gradual process of transformation.
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What is the savannah hypothesis?
Climate change turned Africa from a jungle into a savannah, which caused hominids to develop bipedalism.
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What are 2 hominid of particular interest?
Australopethicus Afaransis and HomoNeanderthalansis
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What were early humans called?
Hominin
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What is sexual selection?
Finding a mate to reproduce with.
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What is natural selection?
Best adapted organisms survive to pass on their genes.
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RACE - BRODKIN's view?
Race is still culturally + socially relevant.
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RACE - RUSTIN's view?
Race is an 'empty category'.
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RACE - Cultural adaptation theory?
Trading - people 'mixing' so skin colour changes.
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RACE - Environmental adaptation theory?
Skin colour is adapted to the environment.
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RACE - AAA view?
Social construct - not a biological reality, was made to give privilege to some and remove power from others.
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SEXUAL SELECTION - MILLER's argument?
Human culture developed through sexual selection for creative traits.
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SEXUAL SELECTION - RIDLEY's argument?
Human bodies are attracted to people of high reproductive potential - attractiveness is due to sexual selection.
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SEXUAL SELECTION - STRATHERN's argument?
Universal preference among women for tall + muscular men, men like all different kinds of women.
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SOCIAL BODY - HERTZ' theory?
Handedness - preference for using one hand over the other, e.g. India -> right hand; sacred, left hand; profane.
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SOCIAL BODY - MAUSS' theory?
Techniques of the body - ways in which the body is trained within a culture.
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SOCIAL BODY - BOURDIEU's theory?
Habitus - habits depend on history and human memory; exists beyond original reason, e.g. working class in Britain have different habitus to upper class.
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SOCIAL BODY - TURNER's theory?
Social skin - body adornments, e.g. Kayak in the Amazon; use body modifications to symbol stage of life. Body Mod includes hair, body paint, tattoos etc.
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Card 2
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What is a phenotype?
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Human genotype (DNA) combined with our environment.
Card 3
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What is bipedalism?
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Card 4
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What did anthropologists originally believe when it came to hominins + homosapiens?
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Card 5
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What do anthropologists believe now when it comes to hominins and homosapiens?
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