ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Carl Linnaeus, Binomial Nomenclature
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Includes evolution, land formation, water, climate, and life. Evolutionary athro: human evolution, behaviour, ecology within the framework constructed by evolutionary biology. (morphology) 1 primatology: scientific study of our closest non-human relatives (chimps) (primates) 2 paleoantrhoplogy: biological evolution for humans and non-human primates. They study fossil material representative of our earliest primates or ancestors. 3 human variation: spatial and temporal variation in human features. (body size, skin colour, eye colour) 4 medical anthro: how humans associate disease and health. (i. e. : how can we have starving children and morbidly obese children in different parts of the world?) 5 forensic anthro: focuses on skeletal remains of humans. Anthro scientific method -stanley gathered few trophies racing slow rabbits. 4 problems limited development of theory of evolution. 1 lack of knowledge on age of earth: in 1650. Accepted because church pronouncement"s held as secular and religious laws. 2 religious concept of fixity of species: we were created as adam and eve.
