ANT 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Carl Linnaeus, Medical Anthropology, Primatology
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Primatology: scientific study of our closest extant biological relatives: non-human primates. Multidisciplinary study of the biological evolution of humans and non-human. Study fossils, tool use, subsistence patterns and disease. Anthropologists study human variation to determine spatial and temporal variations in human features. Study of how social environmental, and biological factors influence health and illness of individuals at the community, regional, national and global levels. Seek to determine age, sex, stature, ancestry and any trauma or disease of the deceased. Descriptive: collecting data about subjects or objects. Casual: looking for one thing that causes another thing to happen or change. Applied: used by medical/forensic anthropologists, in applied research, a scientist determines the means by which a specific, recognized need can be met. Scientific method: observation of the phenomena, formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, development of methods to test the validity of the hypothesis, experimentation, a conclusion that supports of modifies the hypothesis.
