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Seek to conserve primates in vanishing tropical ecosystems. Biological evolution of humans and non human primates. Evolutionary history of humans and non-human primates. Spatial and temporal variations in human features. Geographic and climatic variations in body size, skin colour, and eye colour. How social, environmental, and biological factors influence health and illness of individuals at the community, regional, national, and global levels. Focuses only on skeletal remains of humans. Forensic anthropologists seek to determine the age, sex, stature, etc. of a human through their bones. What limited development of the 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. 1st comprehensive classification system for living things. Binomial nomenclature (1st letter is capitalized, all others a lower case . genus . All leading up to humans . categorizing god"s creations . States that the world was more than 6000 yrs old.