UCSP

• Biodiversity refers to the variety and difference of life on Earth.
• Antropology is the study of human beings, their origin, their society and their cultures, with two subdivisions: social anthropology and cultural anthropology.
• Precision grip enables humans to hold and pick objects steadily using their fingers.
• Power grip enables humans to wrap the thumb and fingers on an object.
• Primate locomotion includes bipedalism, the capacity to walk and stand on two feet, and quadrupedalism, which uses all four limbs.
• Sociology is a specific study of society.
• The term "sociology" was coined by French essayist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes in 1780.
• Political science is the study of politics, its institutions and processes.
• Politics is an activity through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live.
• Government exercises power specifically in relation to governance and decision making.
• Culture refers to social behavior and norms found in societies.
• Society organizes groups of independent people who share a common territory, language and culture and act together for survival and well being.
• Nationality is an identity tied to being part of a nation or country.
• Ethnic group (ethnicity) refers to a shared specific environments, traditions and histories that are not necessarily subscribed to by the mainstreams culture.
• Gender is socially constructed roles, behavior, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.
• There are two types of gender: Heterosexual, who are sexually attracted to a person of the opposite sex, and Homosexual, who are sexually attracted to a person of the same sex.
• Gay refers to being romantically and sexually attracted to another male.
• Lesbian refers to being romantically and sexually attracted to another female.
• Bisexual refers to being attracted to both sexes.
• Asexual refers to being incapable of being attracted to any sex.
• Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his/her inborn biological characteristics.
• Monotheistic religions believe in the existence of one God, while polythistic religions believe in the existence of multiple gods.
• Ethno-biological background refers to the mix of culture or nationality, such as Mestiza, Mestiso, Morena, Moreno.
• Biological capacity necessary parts for facilitating pertinent skills such as speaking, touching, feeling, seeing, and smelling.
• Polysexual refers to being attracted to multiple types of gender.
• Gripping capacity is how your thumb relates with your fingers, an exclusive trait of humans.
• Biological Egalitarianism promotes the equality out of biological makeup despite our ancestry.
• Race is a category that includes Caucasoid, Australoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, and other human traits and characteristics.
• Cultural variations are influenced by factors such as environment, history, traditions, language, climate, and nationality.
• Political identity is a set of attitudes and practices that an individual adheres to in relation to the political systems and actors within his or her society.
• Ethnocentrism is the perspective that promotes an individual’s culture as the most efficient and superior, while cultural relativism argues that culture must be understood in the context of their locality.
• Racial slurs are racist terms used against another person.
• Speaking capacity is the brain's primary source of human capacity to comprehend sound and provide meaning to it, with the vocal tracts as the mechanism by which sounds are produced and re-produced to transmit ideas and values.
• Non-exceptionality refers to the average capacity of an individual who does not conform to the behavioral or cognitive norms, including PWDs, special or gifted children, seniors, etc.
• Pansexual refers to accommodating all types of gender.
• Transgender refers to gender identities that do not match their biological identity as male or female.
• The Oldowon Industry is a stone tool industry, characterized by the use of “hard water-worn creek cobbles made out of volcanic rock”, found by Mary and Louis Leakey at Olduvai George in Tanzania.
• The Acheulian Industry is a more complex industry named after Saint Acheul, a patron saint in Southwest France, where these artifacts were discovered.
• Homo erectus developed a more complex industry from what they inherited from Homo Habilis, creating hand axes that were bifacial, shaped in both sides and with straighter and sharper edges.
• The Mousterian Industry, developed by Homo neanderthalenis in Europe and West Asia, is named after a site in France called Le Moustiesr, where evidence was uncovered in 1860.