Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.

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relative fitness (RF)

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The fitness of a genotype compared with the fitness of another genotype in the same gene system. Relative fitness is measured on a scale of o to 1.

meiosis

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The form of cell division occurring in specialized tissues in the testes and ovary that leads to the production of gametes.

control

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In the scientific method, a situation in which a comparison can be made between a specific situation and a second situation that differs, ideally, in only one aspect from the first.

segregation

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In the formation of sex cells, the process in which paired hereditary factors separate, forming sex cells that contain either one or the other factor.

trajectory

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In systems thinking, this refers to the series of successive states through which the system proceeds over time. It may be said to represent the long-term behavior of the system.

negative feedback

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In systems thinking, this is a process which acts to counter or "dampen" the potentially disruptive effects of external inputs; it acts as a stabilizing mechanism (see homeostasis).

sampling error

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

In population genetics, the transmission of a nonrepresentative sample of the gene pool over space or time due to chance. See also founder principle and genetic drift.