ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Anthropology, Evolution
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Ant 100 september 13 th 2012: things like how people looked, behaviors, languages, artifacts, society. Anthropologists reported back to major colonists from voyages. Application of modern evolutionary theory to studies of the morphology, ecology, and behavior of human and non-human primates: natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow. Primatology (scientific study of non-human primates, primate anatomy, field studies of wild animals, primate psychology, primatologists seek to conserve primates in vanishing tropical ecosystems, major themes in movies, tv, videos, etc. Paleoanthropology (multidisciplinary study of: biological evolution of humans and non-human primates, advent of and changes in human cultural activities, evolutionary history of behavior in human. Human variation spatial and temporal variations in human features, ex: geographic and climatic variations in body size, skin color and eye color. Language is used to differentiate people all over the world, especially in the western world during the 19th century. The study of contemporary human society and culture.
