ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Evolutionary Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Macroevolution
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The study of people from the biological, cultural, historical and societal perspectives. We are looking at culture and biology as they interact together, neither is in a solitary vacuum. Take a holistic approach in terms of applying the broader context in order to see the whole picture. The change in gene frequencies throughout time and between generations. A trait can be as small as the building of a particular amino acid or protein to something like eye colour, height, or ability to digest milk. Genotype is the genetic component that determines a characteristic. What is encoded in dna to lead to the production of that trait down the lines. E. g. what colour our hair is, what affects our liver or our bones. It is the physical expression of the genotype. Genetic change may not result in the phenotypic change. -it is changes in gene frequency among a collective of individuals. Groups are the object of change, not individuals.
