ANTB14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James Hutton, Carl Linnaeus, Medical Anthropology

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Evolutionary anthropologists specialize in: primatology: scientific study of non-human primates. Research topics range from descriptions of primate anatomy through field studies of wild animals to investigations of primate psychology. Primatologists at forefront of research efforts to conserve primates in vanishing tropical ecosystems: paleoanthropology: the study of the biological evolution of humans and non-human primates. Advent of and changes in human cultural activities. Evolutionary history of behaviour in human and non-human primates: human variation: the study of human variation to determine spatial and temporal variations in human features. Evolutionary anthropologists conduct 3 types of research: descriptive: collecting data about the study subjects or objects ex. Forest damaged by logging ---displaced primates: causal: looking for one thing that causes another thing to happen or change. Cause- and-effect relationship between ecological factors ---distribution and density of critical food resources and the loss of primate species in logged forest: applied: scientists determines the means by which a specific, recognized can be met.

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