ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Carl Linnaeus, Darwinism, Georges Cuvier
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Characteristics of science: based on facts (observations) Understand facts based on hypothese: understood through hypotheses. Explanations of observed facts: which must be testable. A potential must expect for a hypotheses to be rejected or accepted: explained with theories. If the hypotheses has been tested a number of times and haven"t been rejected, it is then a theory. Science is a critical effort to understand. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. : sherlock holmes. The science of human cultural and biological variation and evolution. Looks at the biological and cultural influence, and how they influence each other: holistic. Consider all other aspect of human existence: natural and social science. Cultural anthropology: social, political, economic, ideological (holistic approach, study cultural behavior of present and recent past of human populations, marriage systems, religious beliefs etc.
