Dictionary of concepts in physical anthropology
By: Joan C. Stevenson.
Series: Reference sources for the social sciences and humanities,; no. 10
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Physical anthropology -- Dictionaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of concepts:
Absolute or chronometric dating -- Adaptation -- Adaptive radiation -- Agonistic behavior -- Allele -- Allometry -- Altruism -- Analogy -- Arboreal theory -- Assortative mating -- Bergmann’s rule -- Binomial (binary) nomenclature -- Carrying capacity -- Cline -- Culture -- Dental formula -- Derived character -- Dominance -- Dominant -- Ecological niche -- Effective population number -- Encephalization -- Estrus -- Eugenics -- Evolution -- Fertility -- Fitness -- Gene (cistron) -- Gene flow -- Genetic code -- Genetic distance -- Genetic drift -- Genetic load -- Genus -- Grade -- Hardy-Weinberg law -- Heritability -- Hominidae -- Hominoidea -- Homology -- Hybridization -- Inbreeding -- Index of total selection (Crow’s index) -- Linkage -- Menarche -- Mendelian inhertance -- Mendelian population -- Migration -- Mode of locomotion -- Molecular clock model of evolution -- Mutation -- Natural selection -- Pedigree analysis -- Phenotype -- Phenotypic plasticity -- Phyletic evolution -- Phylogeny -- Polygenic (multifactorial) trait -- Polymorphism -- Population structure -- Primate social organization -- Primates -- Punctuated equilibria -- Race -- Secular trend -- Seed-eater hypothesis -- Segregation -- Sexual dimorphism -- Socialization -- Species -- Taxonomy -- Territory -- Typological thinking (essentialism) -- Uniformitarianism.
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