ANTHRO 7- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 125 pages long!)
Document Summary
Sociocultural - documents and explains cultural variations of life. Archaeology - documents and explains cultural variations of life in the past. Biological - the study of humans as animals. Organic engineering : natural selection and its integration into our understanding of basic genetics and population genetics. Comparing humans to our close relatives: primatology. The history of the human lineage: fossils and their interpretation. 27 years of his career studying primates. Science is not a body of knowledge, but a way of gathering knowledge. Pay attention to the process > substance. Data = answers to the questions which are obtained when you measure something systematically. Sample = representative of population of interest. Empirical = having to do with data. Replicable = when a result can be obtained from multiple samples. Inference = a conclusion drawn from evidence researchers inferred that left- handers do not live as long as right-handers.
