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Catherine Delisle

FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY - 0 views

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    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 26 Apr 11
       
      This website is extremely important for my project. It explains in detail the three main waves of feminist anthropology, including the important names (Elsie Clews Parsons, Margaret Mead, etc). It also explains the four main theories in feminist anthropology, which is important to understand it as a whole.
David Bono-Raftopoulos

Darwin's Theory - 0 views

bioweb.cs.earlham.edu/...theory.html

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  • the search for a mechanism of evolution. The first was Jean Lamarck. The second was one of the greatest figures in biology, Charles Darwin.
  • mechanism
  • mechanism
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  • Assume that there were salamanders living in some grasslands. Suppose, Lamarck argued, that these salamanders had a hard time walking because their short legs couldn't trample the tall grasses or reach the ground. Suppose that these salamanders began to slither on their bellies to move from place to place. Because they didn't use their legs, the leg muscles wasted away from disuse and the legs thus became small.
  • passed this acquired trait
  • Darwin disliked school
  • no legs.
  • by inheriting the acquired characteristic of
  • Darwin's Background
  • o have extraordinary talents.
  • genius, did not at first appear
  • legless salamanders evolved
  • d observing birds and collecting insects to study.
  • sent to medical school in Scotland
  • "intolerably dull
  • interested in attending natural history lectures.
  • university at Cambridge, England, in 1827.
  • Darwin be chosen for the position of naturalist on the ship the HMS Beagle.
  • thousands
  • Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell,
  • In the Andes he observed fossil shells of marine organisms in rock beds at about 4,300 m.
  • One reason that Darwin was so eager to study life on land was that he suffered from terrible seasickness and couldn't wait to get off the Beagle.
  • to collect specimens, make observations, and keep careful records of anything he observed that he thought significant.
  • trekked hundreds of miles through unmapped region.
  • catalog his specimens and write his notes.
  • praised by the scientific community.
  • experts for study.
  • bird specialist
  • Darwin's bird collections from the Galapagos Islands, located about 1,000 km west of South America.
  • 13 similar
  • Other experts
  • believe that species change over time.
  • evidence f
  • In 1837 Darwin began his first notebook on evolution. For several years Darwin filled his notebooks with facts that could be used to support the theory of evolution.
  • fossils of similar relative ages are more closely related than those of widely different relative ages.
  • He ran his own breeding experiments and also did experiments on seed dispersal.
  • David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11
     
    Very interesting document, it is a credible site, and has multiple pages of information about Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Helped me quite a bit for my TFAD assignment. 
Chrissy Le

Animal Minds - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

ngm.nationalgeographic.com/...virginia-morell-text

intelligence communication animals brain language evolution science consciousness

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  • ublished: March 2008
  • By Virginia Morell
  • Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University
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  • She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language.
  • They were simply machines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the ability to think or feel. Any pet owner would disagree.
  • many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought.
  • controversial.
  • How, then, does a scientist prove that an animal is capable of thinking—that it is able to acquire information about the world and act on it?
  • Certain skills are considered key signs of higher mental abilities: good memory, a grasp of grammar and symbols, self-awareness, understanding others' motives, imitating others, and being creative.
  • chimpanzees use a variety of tools to probe termite mounds and even use weapons to hunt small mammals; dolphins can imitate human postures; the archerfish, which stuns insects with a sudden blast of water, can learn how to aim its squirt simply by watching an experienced fish perform the task.
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 11 Dec 11
       
      Reminds me of the video we had to watch for homework, very interesting, and great information for my TFAD project!
  • Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have been taught to use sign language and symbols to communicate with us, often with impressive results.
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  • © 2011 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.
David Bono-Raftopoulos

Stone tools influenced hand evolution in human ancestors, anthropologists say - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110307101504.htm

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  • features in the bones and musculature of the human hand and wrist associated with specific gripping and manipulatory capabilities that are different from those of other extant great apes
  • confirmed Charles Darwin's speculation that the evolution of unique features in the human hand was influenced by increased tool use in our ancestors.
  • humans split from the last common ancestor
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  • Africa a
  • apes,
  • ow, researchers Dr Stephen Lycett and Alastair Key have shown that the hands of our ancestors may have been subject to natural selection as a result of using simple cutting tools
  • 2.6 million years ago,
  • show that 'biometric' variation
  • Darwin proposed that the use of stone tools may have influenced the evolution of human hands.
  • David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11
     
    Quite Interesting, and quite helpful.
Daryl Bambic

Cisco: 50 Billion Things on the Internet by 2020 [Infographic]| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm

internet infographic

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  • Daryl Bambic on 02 Aug 11
     
    the internet of things
Daryl Bambic

HHMI's BioInteractive - Lecture Series and Informal Talks - 0 views

www.hhmi.org/...lectures

hhmi science biology

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  • Flash HD, Flash Medium, Flash Low
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 23 Nov 11
       
      This is a great topic for TFAD assignment.
Daryl Bambic

NOVA | Classifying Life - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...classifying-life.html

classification interactive science

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  • "King Philip Crossed Over For Gold and Silver
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Dec 11
       
      This is an easy way to remember the hierarchy of biological classifications.
adam unikowski

NOVA | The Four-Winged Dinosaur - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...four-winged-dinosaur.html

nova dinosaur anthropology

shared by adam unikowski on 08 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • n 2002
  • In 2002
  • the 130 million-year-old creature
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  • debate over the origin of flight
  • Chinese stone quarry where the fossil was discovered
  • Dubbed Microraptor, the crow-sized fossil is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found
  • Did it array its arm- and leg-mounted wings in the style of an early 20th-century biplane to produce high lift at low speed?
  • Did it use them to create a single lifting surface for efficient, swift gliding?
  • Or were the extra wings useless for flight and likely to have been for some other purpose, such as attracting a mate?
  • Artists have historically played an important role in paleontology by helping to reconstruct the appearance and behavior of ancient animals.
  • For years the debate has been a standoff between two camps—those who believe dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds, and those who do not.
  • Believers in the dinosaur-bird connection have generally assumed that flight must have begun from the ground up, with fast-running dinosaurs that eventually got airborne as feathered arms evolved into wings,
  • Skeptics of the bird-dinosaur link say it would have been physically impossible for running dinosaurs to overcome gravity and get off the ground.
  • Larry Martin
  • speaks out for the minority view that birds descended from non-dinosaur tree dwellers.
  • Microraptor is the unexpected missing link that has reignited the debate
  • adam unikowski on 08 Dec 11
     
    This very interesting because it shows how people though that birds are decedents of dinosaurs. Then there are the non believers that do not believe that dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds. The four winged dinosaur Microraptor had brought up this debate again. Microraptor is the missing link that reignited this debate. This website is credible because at the bottom of the page it gives the name of the man who made the site and it is part of pbs.
Daryl Bambic

Overview - Google Guide - 0 views

www.googleguide.com/...overview

search tools guide google

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  • Daryl Bambic on 28 Nov 11
     
    This is a must bookmark for all students, teachers and anyone researching on the web.
Alex Maguid

Contact | Inequality.org - 0 views

inequality.org/contact

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    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Here is a positive sign in terms of credibility.
Alex Maguid

Inequality.org | News, Data & Statistics on Income, Health, Social Inequality - 0 views

inequality.org

inequality

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    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      The goal to this site is to inform the people with stats,video's and articles on inequalities. The type of inequality varies from social to global. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Go to global inequality's due to the fact that my TFAD is on that very subject and that I have highlighted some things.
  • Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
     
    This sight is delightful because it gives you information on global inequality's as well as social inequality's. On top of that awesome stuff they put video's that help the reader understand the topic. It is very credible because they have a about us section where you can see the founder and even contact her if need be. They even tell you where the founder is working so you know that the person is not abandoning the website. Also on top of all that the site is founded by an organisation by the name of IPS where there are senior scholars involved 
Daryl Bambic

Intelligent Design Network :: Seeking Objectivity in Origins Science - 0 views

www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/index.htm

intelligent design

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  • Daryl Bambic on 02 Dec 11
     
    Propose this site as an evaluation activity to the students.
Alex Maguid

World / Global Inequality | Inequality.org - 0 views

inequality.org/global-inequality

Inequality

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    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      This would be a nice simple definition of what is global inequality
  • Global inequality refers to the extent to which income and wealth is distributed in an uneven manner among the world’s population
  • redit Suisse numbers released in October 2010 show that the richest 0.5 percent of global adults hold well over a third of the world’s wealth.
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  • The best estimates for wealth’s concentration at the global economic summit come from Forbes magazine. Forbes annually tallies the fortunes of the world’s billionaires. The world’s 1,210 current billionaires, Forbes reported in March 2011, hold a combined wealth that equals over half the total wealth of the 3.01 billion adults around the world who, according to Credit Suisse, hold under $10,000 in net worth.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Interesting statistics and facts that would be great for my TFAD
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      To summarize this page it gives several stats and facts on how the worlds richest people are richer then the total of all the poorest people and how they have finally come out with sound reports with more statistics proving their theory. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      The reference in this text is incredible because you can use their database for your use and you can compare the incomes of different countries.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      This text gives us a statistic on how some adults are just insanely rich compared to the common man
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      More sites that i can go on to find info
mariakanarakis

By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

findarticles.com/...pg_2

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  • residentially segregated
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
       
      Definition: Blacks and Whites don't live in the same areas (ex. neighborhoods). 
  • this is a result of choice, not legal compulsion.
  • "It's not a segregated town. It's just not an integrated town. There's a difference."
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  • Seven in 10 blacks attended schools that were at least 50 percent black in the 1996-97 school year, according to a June 1999 study
  • same study found that nearly four in 10 blacks attended schools at least 90 percent black. The typical white student attended a school that was 81 percent white.
  • Blacks and whites experience myriad pressures that keep them separate, a fact that becomes clear when you attempt to straddle the race line, talk to people who have, or simply read the newspaper.
  • The aversion to whites is so strong that, even in schools where few are present, black students who excel academically are ridiculed for "acting white." This is a serious problem.
  • If black women dare to date interracially, they may receive random threats of violence from black men who encounter them in public.
  • suffered verbal assaults on the streets of every city in which we've lived and some where we haven't. If black men date white women, they too can expect such attacks from blacks. There are strong pressures to stay within the group.
  • black cliques erect insuperable cultural barrier of tastes and behavior that are unintelligible to whites
  • blacks excommunicated for "acting white," whites who adopt black culture are likely to face resistance at home and in their former cultural community. They're labeled "wannabes" and "wiggers."
  • makes developing deep friendships hard
Alyssa Cohen

Human Family Tree | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program - 0 views

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australopithecus family tree human anthropology origins

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  • Alyssa Cohen on 13 Dec 11
     
    Interactive 'human family tree' website that simply illustrates the earliest ancestors to today's homo sapiens. 
Jake Izenberg

The Learning Generalist: March 2011 - 0 views

www.learninggeneralist.com/2011_03_01_archive.html

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    • Jake Izenberg
      Jake Izenberg on 13 Dec 11
       
      this site has a video on my topic the contains good information. Not only is there a video, but under it contains more information on my subject. In this information there's interesting facts and history on what I'm learning for TF5M 
  • society
  • anthropologist
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  • exploring the effects of new media on society and culture
  • Facebook
  • The knowledge is all around people and a lot of advanced technology is so ubiquitous that it makes connection, organising, sharing and learning easier than ever before
  • new culture and environment
  • they mediate relationships. Media changes, relationships change and the culture changes.
  • media helped the people there in a big way
  • For example
  • The other examples
  • Media is therefore not just tools and communication
  • how important media was
  • Think about how we watch TV. We watch TV for the content, but the content drives relationships. We watch TV while at dinner, we congregate in groups to watch sport. These are the conversations that create our culture
  • Now this kind of stuff should be showing it's effect on education, but it doesnt - 43% of students are bored, up from 20% in the 80s
  • a brief history of the phrase
  • Let's analyse it over time. In the pre-60s "Whatever" meant "That's what I meant". After the 60s it became synonymous with "I don't care" or a "Meh...".
  • Whatever
  • it's a way for people to raise their personality and not be indistinguishable. More people want to be important today - more people want to be the new American Ido
  • So why is American Idol popular
  • From the late 90s to now, people have adopted the "I'll do what I want" meaning for "Whatever". It's an empowered generation and free culture
  • It's a very broad cultural phenomenon which is driving a search for identity and recognition
  • We all need identity and recognition and the media keeps bombarding us with messages of the kind of people we should become. The search for the authentic self leads us towards self-centered modes of self-fulfillment and disagreement on several things - values, views, approaches. We're more disengaged and more fragmented. The new media revolution is creating the cultural background for this kind of a change.
  • micro-learning
  • Jake Izenberg on 13 Dec 11
     
    TF5M    info + video 
Daryl Bambic

The Virtual Choir - Eric Whitacre - 0 views

ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir

virtualchoir whitacre

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  • Daryl Bambic on 13 Jan 12
     
    the humanizing force of the internet's connectivity is redefining what it means to be human
adam unikowski

Four-Winged Dinosaurs Found in China, Experts Announce - 0 views

news.nationalgeographic.com/...0121_030122_dromaeosaur.html

nova dinosaurs experts dinosaur anthropology

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  • bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods
    • adam unikowski
      adam unikowski on 14 Dec 11
       
      The theropod (meaning "beast-footed") dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs. 
  • fully developed, modern feathers on both the forelimbs and hind limbs.
  • new species, Microraptor gui
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  • How did a group of ground-dwelling flightless dinosaurs evolve to a feathered animal capable of flying?
  • used its feathered limbs, along with a long, feather-fringed tail, to glide from tree to tree.
  • The six specimens were excavated from the rich fossil beds of Liaoning Province in northeastern China
  • dated at between 128 to 124 million
  • four feathered limbs,
  • birds are most closely related to dromaeosaurids
  • dromaeosaurs were small, feathered animals with forelimbs similar to those of Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird at around 150 million years old, and feet with features comparable to modern tree-living birds.
michelle tappert

Discovering the genetic roots of humanity - 0 views

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    • michelle tappert
      michelle tappert on 14 Dec 11
       
      Check out how you can use genetics to understand human origins!
michelle tappert

Roots of Human Behavior - 0 views

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    • michelle tappert
      michelle tappert on 14 Dec 11
       
      Did our ancestors develop human behavior for us?
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