ANTH 1200 Lecture Notes - Biological Anthropology, Diastema, Ethnography
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Astatement of irrefutable truth of some actions) occuring in the natural world. Human evolution happened in the past and therefore cannot be tested. Inferences made from fossils and compared to living models living primates can be used as models for homoids. The study of cultures and societies of human beings and their very recent past. Traditional cultural anthropologists study living cultures and present. Culture: learned behavior transmitted from person to person their observations in an ethnography. The study of past societies and their pultures, especially the material tools, food remains, and places where people of the past, such as remains lived. Linguistic anthropology language, especially how language is structured, the evolution of language, and the social/cultural contexts for. Biological anthropology language study of human biological evolution and biocultural variation. Material culture - the part of culture that is expressed as objects that humans use to manipulate environments.
