Important Terms Chapter 1

Term

page

Amino acids

17

Anthropocentrism

21

Apomorphic state

14

Autapomorphy

18

Boas, Franz

20

Buffon, Count de

7

Catastrophism

10

Cladistic analysis

13

Classes and Orders of animals

7

Cultural selection

20

Cuvier, Baron Georges

9

Darwin, Charles

1

Derived state

14

DNA

17

Eugenics

10

Great Chain of Being paradigm

9

Hemoglobin

17

Homoplasy

16

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de Monet

10

Linnaeus, Carolus

9

Microevolution

7

Morphs

1

Natural selection

12

Nested hierarchy

1

Phenetic analysis

13

Phylogenetic analysis

14

Plesiomorphic state

14

Systematics

13

Tylor, E. B.

19

Tyson, Edward

1

Important terms in Chapter 2

Term

Page

Australopithecus afarensis

40

Bottleneck-colonization model

42

Cell division

29

Chromosomes

29

Founder-effect model

36

Gametes

31

Gene flow

34

Genes

29

Genetic drift

35

Genotypes

32

Hardy-Weinberg law

37

Heterozygosity

33

Hominids

42

Homo habilis

39

Homo sapiens

39

Homozygosity

37

Inbreeding

37

Macroevolution

37

Meiosis

29

Mendel, Gregor

32

Mitosis

29

Paranthropus boisei

40

Phenotypes

32

 

 

Important terms Chapter 4

Term

Page

Blumenbach , Johann Friedrich

57

Coon, Carleton S.

49

Gobineau, Arthur de

64

Homo erectus

58

Platonism

55

Thrifty genotype” hypothesis

62

Important terms Chapter 5

Term

Page

Davenport , Charles B.

81

Dobzhansky

91

Feeblemindedness

82

Galton, Francis

77

Hereditarianism

89

Important terms Chapter 6

Term

Page

Hooton, Ernest

99

Miscegenation laws

111

Nuremberg laws

112

Polymorphism

101

Polytypism

101

Important terms Chapter 5

Term

Page

Davenport , Charles B.

81

Dobzhansky

91

Feeblemindedness

82

Galton, Francis

77

Hereditarianism

89

Important terms in chapter  6

Term

Page

 

 

Hooton, Ernest

99

 

Miscegenation laws

111

 

Nuremberg laws

112

 

Polymorphism

101

 

Polytypism

101

Important terms in Chapter 7

Term

Page

ABO Blood Group

126

Basques

131

Cephalic index

121

Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome

131

Pigmentation

120

Tay-Sachs disease

131

Important terms in Chapter 8

Term

Page

Alu repeats

140

Balancing selection (or Balance

146

Crossing-over

142

Enzymes

145

Gene correction

142

Gene pool

148

Genome

139

Globin genes

143

Heme

142

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

151

Malaria

146

Nucleotide sequence

140

Phenylketonuria (PKU)

153

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

145

“Mitochondrial Eve” study

169

Blood types

163

Diego antigen

165

Duffy alleles

166

Ethnic groups

166

Forensic studies of race

159

Human Genome Diversity Project

175

Important terms Chapter 10

Term

Page

Adaptation

183

Allen’s rule

193

Balance model

192

Bergmann’s rule

193

Correlation of parts

189

Diabetes

195

Fruitflies

192

Gloger’s rule

194

Homo sapiens sapiens

200

Lactose intolerance

195

Pathology paradigm

191

Important terms Chapter 11

Term

Page

Acculturation

203

AIDS

213

Amish

211

Demography

207

Kuru

209

Important terms Chapter 12

Term

Page

Habitus characters

226

Heritage characters

223

Newton

229

Important terms Chapter 13

Term

Page

Gender differences

252

Holocaust

259

Intelligence (IQ)

246

Polygamy

255