ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molecular Anthropology, Adam Kadmon, Scientific Method
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Study of the human experience from multiple perspectives: sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological, and physical/biological. A holistic approach to humankind: encompasses both culture and biology. Social aspect as well as the biological: anthropos (cid:858)hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:859, logos (cid:858)study of(cid:859) All aspect of human and how they function language, culture, biology, physical, evolution, etc. Culture: human behaviour that is learned and shared by members of a society shared within members of society in one society and cross-culturally between different societies, not biologically inherited happens with human growth. Evolutionary perspective: adaptation to an environment how humans evolve physically and genetically to the environment they live in, scientific method anthropologists use the scientific method to study these areas of human development. Four subfields of anthropology: sociocultural holistic study of human behaviour. Study of interaction with social groups and cultures as well as within these cultures: linguistics study of human speech and language. Includes both the origins of language in general and analysis of specific languages.
