ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adaptive Radiation, Natural Selection, Social Darwinism
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Cultural: social anthropology studies cultural features of society. All aspects of humans: tech, traditions, language, religion, social roles. Material culture: the physical manifestation of human activities. Not the study of dinosaurs, history, palaeontology. 4 subsections: prehistoric, historic, bioarcheology, culture resource. Prehistoric: study of material culture that predates the first written records. Historic: study of material culture of people who left written records. Bioarchaeology: study of biological remains such as animals or plants. Modern human variability: osteology, forensic, medical, molecular. Medical: study of human health and disease, health care, and biocultural adaptation. Paleoanthropology: study of human fossils and their closest relatives. Primatology: study of living non-human primates forensic: study of human remains in a legal context. A change in genetic structure from one gen to the next. What we find today can lead to the past. A feature of an organism fit for their environment. Organism pass on traits acquired throughout their life.
