Study Guide Test 3
(Please note that this is rough, and may change to some small degree over the next day or two.)

Plesiadipiformes
Euarchonta
Omomyoids
Adapoids
Aegyptopithecus
Beliefs about early hominins prior to Taung
Osteodontokeratic
Paranthropus robustus
South African site bone accumulation agents
Gigantopithecus
Australopithecus africanus
Evidence for bipedalism
Evidence of arboreal behavior in homs
STS 5, STS 14, TM 1513
Lumbar lordosis
Bicondylar angle
Zinj (OH 5)
Paranthropus boisei
Phylogram
Cladogram
Phylogenetic Systematics
Evolutionary Systematics
Homologous
Analogous
Apomorphies
Plesiomorphies
Forest destruction
Radiocarbon dating
K/Ar dating and Ar/Ar dating
Phyletic gradualism
Punctuated Equilibrium
Synapsids
Amniote egg
Coelacanth
Adaptive radiation
Altiatlasius
Proconsul
Aegyptopithecus
Breccia
Piltdown
Relative and Chronometric dating
Half-life
Just so stories about bipedalism
Date of primate divergence from other placental mammals
Sagittal crest
Robert Broom

 

Study Guide Exam 2

Lemuriformes

Lorisiformes

tapetum lucidum

postorbital closure

rhinarium

Brachiators

Tarsiers

Callitrichids

Hylobatids

Polygyny

Monogyny

Polyandry

Colobinae

Frugivorous

Folivorous

Sexual dimorphism

Hippy baboons

Platyrrhini

Anthropoidea

Prosimii

Philopatry

Ring-tailed lemurs

Primitive (plesiomorphic)

Derived (apomorphic)

Sociobiology

Behavioral ecology

Hanuman langurs

Infanticide

Harlow

Alloparenting

Fossey

Goodall

Ceboids

Grooming

Drunken Monkeys

Visual predation hypothesis

Baboons

Capuchins

Brain size

Homosexual behavior

Catarrhini

Dental formulae

Genotype

Phenotype

Primates

Primate taxonomy

Prosimians

Vertical leaping and clinging

Quadrapedalism

Estrus

Proceptivity

Receptivity

Orangutans

Mendel

Dominant

Recessive

Monogenic (Mendelian)

Polygenic

Malaria, Sickle cell

Baboon Tales (infant survival)

K-selected

r-selected

Sexual selection

Apes vs. Monkeys

Heterozygote

Homozygote

Blood groups



Study Guide Exam 1

Anthropology subfields

Anthropos

Theory

Hypothesis

Scala Naturae

Linnaeus

Lamarck

Development of evolutionary thought and religion

Malthus

Catastrophism

Uniformitarianism

Darwin

Cuvier

Peppered moth

Lyell

Hutton

Paley

The geological timeline as discussed in class

Biological species concept

Americans who believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old

Archaeology

Fitness

Donner Party

Allopatric speciation

Ethnocentrism

Kingdom, phylum, etc.

Ray

Robert Plot

Religious proclivities of those who established antiquity of earth and humanity

Cultural Resource Management

Fixity of species

argument from design

Marry Anning

Frere

Boucher de Perthes

Primary and secondary context

Buckland

Ibn Khaldun

Natural selection

Artificial selection

Buffon

Leonardo

The types of societies in which human have usually lived

Tyson