ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Supraorbital Ridge, Cultural Relativism, Anthro (Comics)
21 Mar 2016
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Midterm test: what to study on power point on avenue, bring pencils and all that shit, 50 multiple choice that"s it. Bipedalism ( how can we know this/define/development/theories) Changes in the physical structures in the species: anthropologies. Cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, culture, types of anthro. Gender sex and sexuality examples: sambian examples. How culture informs sexuality: emily martin article, archeology and gender. The place in turkey example: cynthia ex in textbook, names and accomplishments of key anthropologists in the text and lecture (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) Earliest hominid fossils: 6 m years ago in africa with earliest hominids, ardipthecus ramidus, all hominids bipedalism +mix of evolution, most species become extinct, except one which evolved into the genus homo (our genus) All had relatively small brains (chimpanzee size) in contrast to humans that have 2x the size of a chimp brain. Ape like facial features (protruding jawline /proganatic/jutting out snout) Longer arms than humans (chimps and gorillas: category 1.
