ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Osteology, Paleopathology, Human Evolution
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Anthropology 101 - lecture 1 - introduction to biological anthropology. Bipedalism which means to walk on two feet habitually. Non-honing chewing as in humans do not have a large incisor. Interdisciplinary with biology, geology, sociology, geography, and psychology. Studies the patterns of behavior in both political and social organization. Ethnography is a detailed exploration of a culture. It is the study of detailed exploration of culture. Takes record of dying languages and why cultures disappears. Understands how words are used and how they shape culture. It is the study of patterns of behavior. Uses material records that were left behind past cultures. It is the study of human biological evolution and human biocultural variation. The closest living relatives to humans are primates. Skeletal biology which studies primate human evolution. Studies the theory of evolution which is how species change. This field hopes to gain insight in our evolution. Osteology is the study of the human skeleton.
