Chapter 1 Nature, Humanity, and History: The First Four Million Years Flashcards
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| 199647315 | natural selection | the biological process by which variations that enhance a population's ability to survive in a particular environment become dominant in a species over a lond period of time | 0 | |
| 199647316 | evolution | the development of new species overtime | 1 | |
| 199647317 | australopithecines | along with humans, they make up the primate family known as hominids | 2 | |
| 199647318 | hominid | modern or extinct bipedal primates | 3 | |
| 199647319 | bipedalism | walking upright on two legs | 4 | |
| 199647320 | Great Ice Age | the Northern hemisphere ---mostly all of it--- was covered by great ice sheets | 5 | |
| 199647321 | Homo habilis | "handy human" | 6 | |
| 199647322 | Homo erectus | "upright human" | 7 | |
| 199647323 | Homo sapiens | "wise human" | 8 | |
| 199647324 | culture | learned patterns of action and expression | 9 | |
| 199647325 | history | the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events | 10 | |
| 199647326 | Stone Age | when metal tools first appeared | 11 | |
| 199647327 | Paleolithic | the "Old Stone Age" | 12 | |
| 199647328 | Neolithic | the "New Stone Age" | 13 | |
| 199647329 | foragers | hunting and food-gathering people | 14 | |
| 199647330 | Agricultural Revolution | the change from food gathering to food production | 15 | |
| 199647331 | Holocene | era since about 9000 B.C.E. | 16 | |
| 199647332 | magaliths | "big stones" | 17 | |
| 199647333 | archaeology | the study of physical remains of ancient cultures or eras | 18 | |
| 199647334 | artifact | any man-made object or tool | 19 | |
| 199647335 | historian | an expert in history | 20 | |
| 199647336 | geography | the study of the earth's land | 21 | |
| 199647337 | chronology | a record of events in the order of their occurrence | 22 | |
| 199647338 | periodization | dividing into historical eras for analyzing and studying | 23 | |
| 199647339 | theme | idea or subject matter OR a written composition | 24 | |
| 199647340 | demography | study of the human population | 25 | |
| 199647341 | gender | sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture | 26 | |
| 199647342 | historiography | literature dealing with historical matters | 27 | |
| 199647343 | data | information; statistics | 28 | |
| 199647344 | fact | a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred | 29 |