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    Stephanie Mendoza Biological Anthropology 101 Professor Deanna Heikkinen 06 October 2010 The Effects of Genetic Research in the Modern World What makes the human genome so incredibly fascinating? Is it the thousands of genetic sequences of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) or the fact that all life is specified by genomes? Or could it be the fact that a genome contains the building blocks of life and without it‚ life would not exist as it is at this very moment? These are the types of questions

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    Anthropology – Study of Human Diversity - the four subfields of anthropology Cultural anthropologists: ethnography… based on field work Archaeologists: material remains Biological: diversity thru time and space Language: now language to learn past Earnest Hooton: Physical anthropologist Black racist… said closer to primates than whites. caucazoid‚ mongloid‚ negroid Culture Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human; transmitted through learning. |

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    represent the last common ancestor for modern humans and Neanderthals. Phylogenetic analysis of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA leads to a date for the common ancestor of the Neanderthal and modern humans at around 465‚000 to 600‚000 years ago. Archaeologists have found much physical evidence to confirm this date‚ such as the 0.73 Mya old fossils with stone tools and animal bones. The other date matches the movement of modern humans out of Africa and the appearance of modern traits in fossil skulls

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    Chapter 22 The Origin and History of Life on Earth * The universe began with a cosmic explosion called the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago (bya). * Our solar system began about 4.6 bya after one or more local supernova explosions. * The Earth is estimated to be 4.55 billion years old. * The period between 4.0 and 3.5 billion years ago marked the emergence of life on our planet. * Section 22.1: Origin of Life on Earth: * Four Overlapping Stages of the Origin

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    According to Pamela S. Soltisand Douglas E. Soltis‚the fossil record that they found out does not clarify basal groups within the angiosperms. However‚ it clearly identifies a number of form and structure of diverse lineages early in angiosperm evolution. The earliest known large fossil confidently identified as an angiosperm‚ Archaefructusliaoningensis‚ is dated to about 125 millionyears or also known as Cretaceous period‚ whereas pollen considered to be of angiosperm origin takes the fossil record

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    healing approach based on modern Western science that emphasizes technology in diagnosing and treating health problems related to the human body‚ is an ethnomedical system Defining and Classifying Health Problems One set of concepts that medical anthropologists use to sort out the many cross-cultural labels and perceptions is the disease-illness dichotomy To learn how people label‚ categorize‚ and classify health problems Knowledgeable elders are the keepers of ethnomedical knowledge and they pass it

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    Sanchez Professor Chryst‚ Eng 115 Abstract Have you ever heard of Cahokia? In casual conversation‚ almost no one outside the St. Louis area has. Cahokia‚ America’s Lost City? Cahokia was the center‚ possibly the origin‚ of what anthropologists call Mississippian culture‚ a collection of agricultural communities that reached across the American Midwest and Southeast starting before A.D. 1000 and peaking around the 13th century. The idea that American Indians could have built something

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    MOST of us know‚ or think we know‚ what the first Europeans encountered when they began their formal invasion of the Americas in 1492: a pristine world of overwhelming natural abundance and precious few people; a hemisphere where -- save perhaps for the Aztec and Mayan civilizations of Central America and the Incan state in Peru -- human beings indeed trod lightly upon the earth. Small wonder that‚ right up to the present day‚ American Indians have usually been presented as either underachieving

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    Montana Paleontologists Compile Growth Series Analyses Adversely Affecting Dinosaur Species Diversity Holly Brown ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of paleontologists Horner‚ Scanella‚ Goodwin and others regarding their study of growth series analysis in dinosaurs. They have provided evidence that what once was considered multiple different species of dinosaurs are actually varying stages of development in one genus. Utilizing the extensive fossil record at hand for

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    seems‚ is the rule of thumb. The word "Baluga"‚ for instance‚ is also considered insulting by other Aeta groups since it means "brackish‚ half-salt and half-fresh." History The history of the Aeta continues to confound anthropologists and archaeologists. One theory suggests that the Aeta are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Philippines who arrived through land bridges that linked the country with the Asian mainland some 30‚000 years ago. These migrations may have

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