ANTH 101 Vocabulary to know for Part Iabsolute dating (same as chronometric dating)accelerator mass spectrometer (dating)allele (also, allele frequency)amino acidAMS (= accelerator mass spectrometer)anthropologyanthropoidape (great, lesser)arborealarchaeological sitearchaeologyarchaeomagnetismargon/argon (Ar/Ar) datingartifactbase (in genetics)binomial nomenclaturebiological anthropologybipedal, bipedalismbone chemistry analysis (for dating)B.P. (refers to dating)brachiationcalibration (of radiocarbon dates)carriercatarrhinecercopithecoidchromosomechronometric dating techniques (same as absolute dating techniques)cladistics or cladistic analysisco-dominant (in genetics)codoncreation mythCreationism, creationistcrossing overcultural anthropologydatumdendrochronology (tree ring dating)diploiddiurnalDNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)dominant (in genetics)electron spin resonance (ESR) datingethnoarchaeologyexcavation (as a stage in archaeological investigations)experimental archaeologyevolution1featurefission (in genetics)fission track datingflotationfluorine absorption (for dating)fossilfossil localityfounder effectgametegenegene flowgene poolgenetic driftgeneticsgenotype (phenotype)genomegenus (know how to properly write a genus)gradualismgreat apegrooming clawhalf-life (radiometric dating)haploidHardy-Weinberg Equilibrium hypothesisheterozygous (homozygous)hominidhomininhominoidhomozygous (heterozygous)hypothesisindependent assortment (during meiosis)index fossil conceptinheritance of acquired characteristicsknuckle-walkinglesser apelinguistics (anthropological linguistics)linked genes (during meiosis)living floorlocomotionlocus/locimacromutationMaster Key (for dendrochronology)matrixmeiosismidden2mitosismonkeymonogenic trait (polygenic)mutation (also macromutation, point mutation)myamythnatural selectionNew Worldnichenocturnalobsidian hydration datingOld Worldopposableoptically stimulated luminescence (OSL)paleoanthropologistpentadactylphenetic taxonomyphenotype (genotype)plan viewplatyrrhinepoint mutationpolygenic trait (monogenic)populationpostcranialpotassium/argon (K/Ar) datingprehensileprimateprofile (at an archaeological site)prosimianproveniencepunctuated equilibriumquadrupedal, quadrupedalismraceradiocarbon (C14) datingradiometric dating techniquesRCYBP (in dating)recessive (in genetics)recombination (during meiosis)relative datingsciencescientific creationismscientific methodsegregation (during meiosis)sensitive tree (dendrochronology)seriation (stylistic, frequency)3sex-linked genesexual dimorphismsitespecies (know how to properly write a species)stable isotopeSteno’s Law of Superpositionsterilestrata (stratum)stratigraphic orderstratigraphystratum (strata)superpositionsurvey (as a stage in archaeological investigations)taphonomytaxontaxonomytesting (as a stage in archaeological investigations)theoryTheory of Natural Selectionthermoluminescence (TL) datingtree ring dating (dendrochronology)tuffuniformitarianismunstable isotopeuranium series (dating)vertical clinging and leapingya (in
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