Anth Final Terms

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Acheulian
Allen’s rule
antibodies
antigens
archaic Homo sapiens
Ardipitecus ramidus
Australopithecus aethiopicus
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus boisei
Australopithecus garhi
Australopithecus robustus
Bergman’s rule
biological concept of race
bipedalism
blood type
bone tools
brow ridges
burials
cave art
Clovis
Dmanisi, Georgia
foramen magnum
hobbit
hominids
hominins
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
Homo floresiensis
Homo habilis
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo rudolfensis
Homo sapiens
infant mortality
IQ scores
lactose intolerance
Lagar Velho, Portugal
melanin
Mousterian
Neanderthal
occipital bun
Oldowan
Orrorin turgenensis
Piltdown Man
quadrupedalism
rickets
saggital crest
Sahelanthropous tchadensis
skin color
sub-species
vitamin D
Zhoukoudian

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Acheulian
1. (Social Science / Archaeology) (in Europe) the period in the Lower Palaeolithic following the Abbevillian, represented by the use of soft hammerstones in hand axe production made of chipped stone, bone, antler, or wood. The Acheulian dates from the Riss glaciation
2. (Social Science / Archaeology) (in Africa) the period represented by every stage of hand axe development

Allen's Rule
The principle holding that in a warm-blooded animal species having distinct geographic populations, the limbs, ears, and other appendages of the animals living in cold climates tend to be shorter than in animals of the same species living in warm climates. Shorter and more compact body parts have less surface area than elongated ones and thus radiate less body heat. Allen's rule is named for the American zoologist Joel Allen (1838-1921).

Antibody
An antibody is a protein produced by the body's immune system when it detects harmful substances, called antigens. Each type of antibody is unique and defends the body against one specific type of antigen. (MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia)

Antigens
Examples of antigens include microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses) and chemicals. (MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia)

Archaic Homo Sapien
Relating to or being an early form or subspecies of Homo sapiens, anatomically distinct from modern humans. Neanderthals in Europe and Solo man in Asia are usually classed as archaic humans. Though archaic humans belong to the same species as modern humans, not all archaic groups or populations are necessarily ancestral to Homo sapiens sapiens. According to certain models of human evolution, modern humans replaced archaic populations throughout Asia and Europe after migrating out of Africa in comparatively recent times. In other models, widely separated but interbreeding archaic groups in different parts of the world evolved independently into today's physiologically distinct geographic populations.

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Vitamin D
1 Any of a group of vitamins found in liver and fish oils, essential for the absorption of calcium and the prevention of rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.

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Zhoukoudian
A cave system in Beijing, China. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the gigantic hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.

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Rickets
Rickets is a softening of bones in children due to deficiency or impaired metabolism of vitamin D, phosphorus or calcium, potentially leading to fractures and deformity.

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Sagittal Crest
A sagittal crest is a ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) of many mammalian and reptilian skulls, among others.

The presence of this ridge of bone indicates that there are exceptionally strong jaw muscles. The sagittal crest serves primarily for attachment of the temporalis muscle, which is one of the main chewing muscles.

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Skin Color
Human skin color is primarily due to the presence of melanin in the skin. Skin color ranges from almost black to white with a pinkish tinge due to blood vessels underneath. Variation in natural skin color is mainly due to genetics, although the evolutionary causes are not completely certain.

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Melanin
is a pigment that is ubiquitous in nature, being found in most organisms (spiders are one of the few groups in which it has not been detected). In animals melanin pigments are derivatives of the amino acid tyrosine.

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Clovis = early American people who're named after their "Clovis points" weapons, which are formed via bifacial percussion flaking
Dmanisi, Georgia = site where some uber-ancient jaw bones and skulls were found to resemble H. erectus very closely
Read later:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardipithecus
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusaethiopicus.htm
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusafarensis.htm
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusafricanus.htm
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusanamensis.htm
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusboisei.htm
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusgarhi.htm
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusrobustus.htm
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bergmann%27s_rule
http://history-world.org/anthropology.htm
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html#habilis
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/homorudolfensis.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrorin
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/lagarvelho.html
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/sahelanthropus-tchadensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bun
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/395112/Mousterian-industry