ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olduvai Gorge, Old World Monkey, Cell Nucleus
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This course review will be formatted as follows. The lecture notes will be featured first, and following those notes, the chapter reviews from the textbook will end the chapter gone over in lecture. Anthropology the study of humans, all times, places and aspects of humanity. Paleontologists focus on dinosaurs, early pigs, wider range of species. Anthropology as a holistic discipline all aspects of human behaviour and culture are covered; past and present as well. Holism covering all aspects and perspectives on an issue, instead of only one. [ethnocentrism/cultural relativism]): also particularistic; wanting to understand particular groups of people. Data accumulation (gathering all of the information) Generation of hypotheses testing: all hypotheses must be testable. If support theory (hypothesis supported by testing: hypothesis production/invention. Study of non-humans, for ancestors: facts and explanation. Can"t pick and choose which facts to explain; Hypotheses must explain all the facts: summing up (defining theory)
