ANT204H1 Lecture : FEB 8TH lecture
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The human zoo animal anthropology: evolutionary anthro, anthromorphism. Argue that we don"t have human intact. Innate instinctual behaviour of insects and learned cultural behaviour of human (common set of understanding about how the world work) Care a lot about them in psychology, anthropology, sociology. Why: ethical issues, power: if we say it"s genetic, so you can"t change it, you just have to deal with it. If you say its culture, then you can alter them and make changes. Sociobiologist genetic inheritance and all about adaptation. Rape in mallard ducks: because its so simplistic, its too easy to wrap it on human. Culture was not paying enough attention to. Means that we are open to social change and lots of rational group dont like social change. Male supremacy: natural selection and controlled by genes. Attributes human characteristic to animal and non-living things. The can reason and also can verse. Humanocentrism: tendency to human tp regards themselves as being the most prominent.
