ANTH 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carl Linnaeus, Stereopsis, Catarrhini

• School: Trent University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 3470
• Professor: Purcell John

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Anth 3470 02/02/16 lecture 4: primate evolution and taxonomy: part 2. Clothing: dna anth room between 9-3 on thursday should probably check the. The scholarly field of inquiry that studies humans as group members (within an evolutionary and cross cultural context) to study human groups rigorously and comprehensively: we are obliged to take an eclectic approach to anthropology. Franz boas: advocated for comprehensive othering needed to understand all parts of a group of people seeing first nations on their own terms idea of cultural relativism. Subfields of anthropology: biological anthropology is regarded as one of four intellectual subfields in the discipline of anthropology it is devoted to study the biological history, evolutionary relationships, and adaptive diversity, that characterize the human species. Osteology, medical anthropology, primatology, evolution, human variation, paleoanthropology. Biological anthropology mediates the past and present where we came from, where other people"s come from, where we as a species come from.