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ANT 102Exam # 1 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 12Lecture 1 (September 2)Introduction-Who we are/where we came from-Why we differ-What is physical anthropology?Lecture 2 (September 4) What are the four fields of anthropology? What are the perspectives of anthropology? What arethe subfields of anthropology? What are the subfields of physical anthropology? What’s the anthropological approach? Lecture 3 (September 9)What made up the Middle Age Worldview? How did the scientific revolution progress? Who is Charles Darwin? Who is Alfred Russell Wallace? What is the process of natural selection? What was the evolutionary change through natural selection? What constraints were on 19th century evolutionary theory?Lecture 4 (September 11)What are the views on evolution? What is William Paley’s argument on design? What’s intelligent design? What’s the blind watchmaker? What’s the relation between science and faith?Lecture 5 (September 16)What’s the makeup of a cell? What are the two cell types? What’s the structure of DNA? What are proteins and protein synthesis? What are genes? What are the two types of cell division? How many chromosomes do humans have? What types of chromosomes are there? Explain mitosis. Explain meiosis. What is the evolutionary significance of meiosis and what are problemswith it?Lecture 6 (September 18)What principles did Mendel discover? What are the principles of segregation? What are recessive and dominant traits? What’s the principle of independent assortment? What’s Mendelian inheritance in humans? What are inherited genetic disorders? What’s polygenic inheritance? How do you measure the frequency of traits? What are genetic and environmental factors? Know hereditary vs evolution. Know the contemporary definition of evolution. What factors change allele frequencies?Lecture 7 (September 23)What’s the modern theory of evolution? What’s the definition of evolution? What’s Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? Is natural selection the editor or composer of evolution? What’s a balanced polymorphism? What are conditions for no evolution to occur? Lecture 8 (September 25)What are the historical views of human evolution? What are the historical views of human variation? What’s the concept of race? Know about allele frequencies within and between populations. What’s racism? What’s intelligence?Lecture 9 (September 30)What’s bio cultural human evolution? What are simple polymorphisms? What are patterns of population diversity? What are race and genetics?Lecture 10 (October 2)What’s the adaptive significance of human variation? Know about pigmentation and geographical divisions. What determines skin color? Why is vitamin D important? What’s the thermal environment and the human response to heat? What’s the human response to cold andhigh altitude? What are infectious diseases, the effects, and examples? What environmental factors affect infectious disease?Lecture 11 (October 7)What’s the anthropological approach to growth and development? What are the fundamentals of growth and development? Know about bone growth. Know about stature, brain growth, nutrients for growth and development, and the evolution of nutritional requirements. What are essential amino acids? What was the human diet before agriculture? What’s under nutrition and malnutrition? What factors affect human growth and development? What’s the human lifecycle? Know about all of the stages and aging. Lecture 12 (October 9) Know about the human lifecycle and women’s post-reproductive stage. What is the lifecycle profound


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