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physical anthropology pitt exam 2

Paleontology - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of fossils



homology - correct answer ✔✔similarity resulting from common ancestry



homoplasy - correct answer ✔✔A similar (analogous) structure or molecular sequence that has evolved
independently in two species.



pheetics - correct answer ✔✔coincides all similarities between organisms to determine relationships



cladistics - correct answer ✔✔classification based on common ancestry



derived similarities - correct answer ✔✔-Not always the result of shared ancestry

-Evolution could have occurred independently

-Goal is to distinguish which characteristic result from shared ancestry and which are not



Species - correct answer ✔✔A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.



Speciation - correct answer ✔✔Formation of new species



types of fossils - correct answer ✔✔-Mineralized bone/teeth

-Molds

-Casts

-Trace fossils

-Coprolites

, Taphonomy - correct answer ✔✔Study of the process affecting an organism from death to discovery as a
fossil



stratigraphy - correct answer ✔✔The study of rock layers



superposition - correct answer ✔✔the principle that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on
the bottom and the younger rocks are above them



Provenience - correct answer ✔✔the place of origin for archaeological materials, including location,
association, and context



Lithostratigraphy - correct answer ✔✔the study of geologic deposits and their formation, stratigraphic
relationships, and relative time relationships based on their lithologic (rock) properties



Tephrostratigraphy - correct answer ✔✔using chemical similarities of volcanic ash layers to determine
time equivalence across sites



Biostratigraphy - correct answer ✔✔a relative dating technique based on the regular changes seen in
evolving groups of animals as well as the presence or absence of particular species



radiometric dating - correct answer ✔✔method used to determine the age of rocks using the rate of
decay of radioactive isotopes



Paleomagnetism - correct answer ✔✔the study of changes in Earth's magnetic field, as shown by
patterns of magnetism in rocks that have formed over time



magnetic reversal - correct answer ✔✔an event that causes a magnetic field to reverse direction



plate tectonics - correct answer ✔✔The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion,
driven by convection currents in the mantle.

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