ANT100Y1 Lecture 1: ANT100 lecture#1

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: matthewhoffmann

Document Summary

What is anthropology: holistic science comprising of, socio-cultural anthropology, linguistic and semiotic anthropology, archaeology, medical anthropology, biological/evolutionary anthropology. The application of modern evolutionary theory to studies of the morphology, ecology, and behavior of human and non-human primates. Anthropology: primatology: the scientific study of our closest extant biological relatives: non-human primates, paleoanthropology: it is the multidisciplinary study of the biological evolution of humans and non-human primates. How do anthropologists conduct research: conduct three types of research: descriptive: involves collecting data about the study subjects or objects, Important contributions: taxonomic system and the binomial nomenclature. Linnaean taxonomy classifies all living things in a ranked hierarchy, from the highest most generalized category down to the species level. Describes everything known about the natural history at that time. Other contribution was the idea that species changed and evolved after they moved away from the place where they were created: jean-baptiste lamarck: French, a decorated soldier, and later an academic.