Marked Catalog Copy - East Carolina University
... ANTH 2000. Archaeology Around the World (3) (F,S) (FC:SO) ANTH 2010. Societies Around the World (3) (F,S,SS) (FC:SO) or ANTH 2200. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3) (F,S) ANTH 2015. Introduction to Biological Anthropology (3) (WI*) (F,S) (FC:SC) (RP: BIOL course) ANTH 2016. Biological Anthro ...
... ANTH 2000. Archaeology Around the World (3) (F,S) (FC:SO) ANTH 2010. Societies Around the World (3) (F,S,SS) (FC:SO) or ANTH 2200. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3) (F,S) ANTH 2015. Introduction to Biological Anthropology (3) (WI*) (F,S) (FC:SC) (RP: BIOL course) ANTH 2016. Biological Anthro ...
Modular Skeletal Evolution in Sticklebacks Is Controlled by Additive
... a concerted set of craniofacial changes allows freshwater populations to forage more efficiently on new diets in freshwater habitats. In addition to head skeletal traits, aspects of the median fin and vertebral skeleton are known to vary and be under selection in stickleback populations. These include ...
... a concerted set of craniofacial changes allows freshwater populations to forage more efficiently on new diets in freshwater habitats. In addition to head skeletal traits, aspects of the median fin and vertebral skeleton are known to vary and be under selection in stickleback populations. These include ...
1 CULTURAL EVOLUTION TRUE AND FALSE
... more to suggest an interpretation of the notion of group selection which is not based on the claim that individuals practice certain rules because they are beneficial to the group (…) Rather the argument is that those groups in which, for whatever reason, individuals are made to follow socially bene ...
... more to suggest an interpretation of the notion of group selection which is not based on the claim that individuals practice certain rules because they are beneficial to the group (…) Rather the argument is that those groups in which, for whatever reason, individuals are made to follow socially bene ...
Individual variation and individualism
... significantly higher concordance among monozygotic than among dizygotic twins, even after control for a number of mediating factors (31%-13%). Those data do not proof that criminal behaviour is genetically determined, but that the presence of particular genotypes in criminogenous circumstances can m ...
... significantly higher concordance among monozygotic than among dizygotic twins, even after control for a number of mediating factors (31%-13%). Those data do not proof that criminal behaviour is genetically determined, but that the presence of particular genotypes in criminogenous circumstances can m ...
Charles Darwin Meets Amoeba economicus: Why Natural Selection
... slight exceptions) toxic environments. However, when starved, these unicellular, solitary organisms have a strong incentive, or what biologists and psychologists call “signal” or “stimulus,” to undertake an appropriate response: Economists call such a response, when performed by a number of organism ...
... slight exceptions) toxic environments. However, when starved, these unicellular, solitary organisms have a strong incentive, or what biologists and psychologists call “signal” or “stimulus,” to undertake an appropriate response: Economists call such a response, when performed by a number of organism ...
Slides from Lecture 4
... • Mutations are small, random changes (copying errors) • Many mutations have no effect at all, others are lethal. • In general, even though mutations often have negative immediate effects, they give evolution new material to work (or, rather, experiment) with. ...
... • Mutations are small, random changes (copying errors) • Many mutations have no effect at all, others are lethal. • In general, even though mutations often have negative immediate effects, they give evolution new material to work (or, rather, experiment) with. ...
Anthropology Courses (ANTH)
... different departments to investigate these questions using inquiry-based activities to build success in critical thinking, teamwork, and effective written and oral communication; second half of the origins sequence (though either course also may be taken alone). GE: Natural Sciences with Lab. Same a ...
... different departments to investigate these questions using inquiry-based activities to build success in critical thinking, teamwork, and effective written and oral communication; second half of the origins sequence (though either course also may be taken alone). GE: Natural Sciences with Lab. Same a ...
Understanding Organizational Culture
... ethical and political dimensions of organizational life. The meaning(s) of culture A glance at just a few works that use the term ‘organizational culture’ will reveal enormous variation in the definitions of this term and even more in the use of the term ‘culture’. ‘Culture’ has no fixed or broadly ...
... ethical and political dimensions of organizational life. The meaning(s) of culture A glance at just a few works that use the term ‘organizational culture’ will reveal enormous variation in the definitions of this term and even more in the use of the term ‘culture’. ‘Culture’ has no fixed or broadly ...
How pathogens drive genetic diversity: MHC, mechanisms and
... Defining the mechanisms of PMS is, however, the easy part. Determining their relative roles in maintaining MHC diversity is another matter as they are by no means mutually exclusive and may operate in concert with other selective and neutral forces (Apanius et al. 1997). Moreover, the mechanisms may ...
... Defining the mechanisms of PMS is, however, the easy part. Determining their relative roles in maintaining MHC diversity is another matter as they are by no means mutually exclusive and may operate in concert with other selective and neutral forces (Apanius et al. 1997). Moreover, the mechanisms may ...
Effect of population size, selection intensity, linkage and non
... long have had formulations for selection without epistasis and for the effects of linkage on the approach to equili brium under random mating without selection, but no one has been able, mathematically, to derive valid equations for selection in finite populations in the presence of linkage and epi ...
... long have had formulations for selection without epistasis and for the effects of linkage on the approach to equili brium under random mating without selection, but no one has been able, mathematically, to derive valid equations for selection in finite populations in the presence of linkage and epi ...
student understanding and acceptance of evolution, creationism
... It is important to note that design was not the only concept that related to the topic of evolution and religion that the Greeks investigated. Democritus, a Greek philosopher who lived from 460 BCE to 370 BCE, is considered by many to be among the first atheists. He argued that all matter is made up ...
... It is important to note that design was not the only concept that related to the topic of evolution and religion that the Greeks investigated. Democritus, a Greek philosopher who lived from 460 BCE to 370 BCE, is considered by many to be among the first atheists. He argued that all matter is made up ...
MHC, mechanisms and
... Defining the mechanisms of PMS is, however, the easy part. Determining their relative roles in maintaining MHC diversity is another matter as they are by no means mutually exclusive and may operate in concert with other selective and neutral forces (Apanius et al. 1997). Moreover, the mechanisms may ...
... Defining the mechanisms of PMS is, however, the easy part. Determining their relative roles in maintaining MHC diversity is another matter as they are by no means mutually exclusive and may operate in concert with other selective and neutral forces (Apanius et al. 1997). Moreover, the mechanisms may ...
Cultural Relativism
... are neither precise nor equivalent.6 Also, there are two ways in which a judgment might be relative to a culture. First, its truth (or falsehood) might be relative to the culture. That is, the judgment might be true in a relative way rather than an ordinary, nonrelative way. Second, the judgment mig ...
... are neither precise nor equivalent.6 Also, there are two ways in which a judgment might be relative to a culture. First, its truth (or falsehood) might be relative to the culture. That is, the judgment might be true in a relative way rather than an ordinary, nonrelative way. Second, the judgment mig ...
Why A Public AnthroPology? - Center for a Public Anthropology
... tives, and being really in contact with them. What does this latter mean? . . . It means that his life in the village, which at first is a strange, sometimes unpleasant, sometimes intensely interesting adventure soon adopts quite a natural course very much in harmony with his surroundings. Soon afte ...
... tives, and being really in contact with them. What does this latter mean? . . . It means that his life in the village, which at first is a strange, sometimes unpleasant, sometimes intensely interesting adventure soon adopts quite a natural course very much in harmony with his surroundings. Soon afte ...
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
... All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the author ...
... All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the author ...
Daniël van Draanen - Utrecht University Repository
... Correct educational translation of the scientific scholarly knowledge of the terms phenotype and hereditary trait to students is important for at least two further theoretical reasons and two practical reasons. First of all, as Gifford (2000) indicates, genes and traits are interdependent concepts: ...
... Correct educational translation of the scientific scholarly knowledge of the terms phenotype and hereditary trait to students is important for at least two further theoretical reasons and two practical reasons. First of all, as Gifford (2000) indicates, genes and traits are interdependent concepts: ...
Typology now: Homology and developmental constraints explain
... the type itself may changes over evolutionary time when homologues are lost or novel homologues evolve. The evolutionary origin of a ‘novelty’ in the sense of Müller and Wagner (1991) is precisely the addition of a new homologue to a type. While the terms ‘type’ and ‘typology’ have occasionally been ...
... the type itself may changes over evolutionary time when homologues are lost or novel homologues evolve. The evolutionary origin of a ‘novelty’ in the sense of Müller and Wagner (1991) is precisely the addition of a new homologue to a type. While the terms ‘type’ and ‘typology’ have occasionally been ...
Inference of natural selection on quantitative traits
... using stochastic differential equations and the steady state of a population, balancing the forces of selection (increasing the fitness) and random genetic drift (decreasing the fitness), can be determined using methods of statistical mechanics. In this thesis, I combine aspects of both fields to st ...
... using stochastic differential equations and the steady state of a population, balancing the forces of selection (increasing the fitness) and random genetic drift (decreasing the fitness), can be determined using methods of statistical mechanics. In this thesis, I combine aspects of both fields to st ...
The Emergence of Hayek`s Ideas on Cultural Evolution
... “an exaggerated belief in the powers of individual reason and of a consequent contempt for anything which has not been consciously designed by it or is not fully intelligible to it” (p. 8). Hayek’s article was originally intended to be part of a larger project, one he began in the late 1930s, on “th ...
... “an exaggerated belief in the powers of individual reason and of a consequent contempt for anything which has not been consciously designed by it or is not fully intelligible to it” (p. 8). Hayek’s article was originally intended to be part of a larger project, one he began in the late 1930s, on “th ...
Department of Anthropology - Ithaca College Catalog 2016-2017
... Introduces the study of humans as biological beings, including evolutionary principles, primate behavior, the fossil record of human evolution, and biological variation in modern populations resulting from various factors. (F-S,Y) Attributes: 2A, NS, SC, TIII 3 Credits ANTH 10400 Cultural Anthropolo ...
... Introduces the study of humans as biological beings, including evolutionary principles, primate behavior, the fossil record of human evolution, and biological variation in modern populations resulting from various factors. (F-S,Y) Attributes: 2A, NS, SC, TIII 3 Credits ANTH 10400 Cultural Anthropolo ...
Visiting Cultures: A Critique of Tourism and Anthropology Jessica Carew Kraft
... landscapes with interest and curiosity (and then to be provided with many other related services), has become a right of citizenship from which few in the West are formally excluded" (Urry, 180). This has transformed tourism into a search for the photogenic. Everything in sight is not valued intrins ...
... landscapes with interest and curiosity (and then to be provided with many other related services), has become a right of citizenship from which few in the West are formally excluded" (Urry, 180). This has transformed tourism into a search for the photogenic. Everything in sight is not valued intrins ...
3 Ontological analogy: Genes and memes
... Darwinian process of blind variation and selection. In being creative, humans are – like nature – ‘blind watchmakers.’ Memetics goes even further. Memeticists claim that we can eliminate the human mind as the main causal force in our explanation of creativity and culture. Memes and not minds are the ...
... Darwinian process of blind variation and selection. In being creative, humans are – like nature – ‘blind watchmakers.’ Memetics goes even further. Memeticists claim that we can eliminate the human mind as the main causal force in our explanation of creativity and culture. Memes and not minds are the ...
Darwinism Memes And Creativity_opus
... Darwinian process of blind variation and selection. In being creative, humans are – like nature – ‘blind watchmakers.’ Memetics goes even further. Memeticists claim that we can eliminate the human mind as the main causal force in our explanation of creativity and culture. Memes and not minds are the ...
... Darwinian process of blind variation and selection. In being creative, humans are – like nature – ‘blind watchmakers.’ Memetics goes even further. Memeticists claim that we can eliminate the human mind as the main causal force in our explanation of creativity and culture. Memes and not minds are the ...
The pleiotropic structure of the genotype–phenotype
... genes, which may be epistatic to one another 2–4; these traits are known as multifactorial, or polygenic, traits. In this Review, we focus on the pleiotropic structure of the GPM, because the multifactorial structure of the GPM, in the context of human common disease, has been the subject of a numbe ...
... genes, which may be epistatic to one another 2–4; these traits are known as multifactorial, or polygenic, traits. In this Review, we focus on the pleiotropic structure of the GPM, because the multifactorial structure of the GPM, in the context of human common disease, has been the subject of a numbe ...