- Industry: Education
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Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
Referring to animals that spend most of their time on the ground rather than in the air, water, or trees. See arboreal and semi-terrestrial.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to anatomical differences between males and females of the same species. Primate males are usually significantly larger and more muscular than females. This is especially true of semi-terrestrial monkeys and the great apes. Humans are also sexually dimorphic.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to a very rudimentary culture. Chimpanzees and possibly other great apes as well as our fossil ancestors 3-4 million years ago are said to have such a protoculture. While they are dependent on their community's learned behavior patterns for survival, they do not have complex cultural technologies like humans.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to an egg with a hard shell and protective membranes that prevent the embryo from rapidly drying out. Reptiles, birds, and prototherian mammals lay amniote eggs.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to a stomach with "saccules," or sack-like compartments, in which bacteria slowly break down cellulose, thereby providing more useable calories. Among the primates, only the Colobinae (colobus, langurs, and proboscis monkeys) have this characteristic. Cows and some related animals also have sacculated stomachs.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to a gene that is carried by an X chromosome. See sex-linked gene.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to a gene that is part of a sex chromosome. Since all of the genes on a chromosome are inherited as a package, they are essentially linked together.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to a gene that is carried by a Y chromosome. See sex-linked gene.
Industry:Anthropology
Rapid changes in gene pool frequencies that can occur in small populations. See genetic drift, founder principle, and bottleneck effect.
Industry:Anthropology
Recognizing family ties only between mothers and their children.
Industry:Anthropology
