ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical Anthropology, Eye Color, Primatology
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Lecture #2 (cid:343)it"s about climate, water, geology, and life! (cid:344) Application of modern evolutionary theory to studies of morphology, ecology, and behaviour of human and non-human primates. Primate anatomy, field studies of wild animals, primate psychology, etc. Biological evolution of humans and nonhuman primates. Evolution is not progressive, you can get reversals and extinction, but we survive to live and live to survive. Spatial and temporal variations in human features i. e geographic and climatic variations in body size, skin colour, eye colour, etc. How social, environmental, and biological factors influence health and illness of individuals at the community, regional, and global levels. 4 problems limited development of theory of evolution: lack of knowledge on age of earth, religious concept of fixity of species, lack of scientific method, religious notion of separate creation for humans and animals, age of the earth. In 1650, earth created on afternoon of october 23, 4004 b. c.
