AR103 - Week 2 - Sep. 21, 2011
AR103 Lecture 2
Anthropological Approach
- Brings all anthropologists together
- Anthropology recognizes all human dynamics are changing all the time
- In order to understand something you need to compare and contrast
1. Comparative
- Understandings depend on devices and comparisons and contrast
2. Holistic:
- Understandings take into ▯ account as many variables as possible
3. Account for Process
- Complex human systems are never static but always dynamic
- Understanding must account for this dynamic quality
4. Case Study Perspective
- Begin by understanding simple, small-scale, local
- Used as pieces of puzzle to help understand more complex elements
5. Relativity of Viewpoint
- Understandings will always be blessed
- Engage in devices to reduce bias’
Human Evolution
- Human biology influences human evolution along with Human Behaviour and Environment,
Locomotion
- Human biology influences human behaviour (i.e. don’t eat enough you get hungry and affects
you’re mood)
- Human biology influences locomotion because we are bipedal
- Human behaviour influences human behaviour (I.e. going to the gym to get fit)
- Human behaviour influences the environment (i.e. using a car and littering destroying the
environment)
- Environment influences human behaviour (i.e. Waking up to rainy weather, having to change
your wardrobe, bringing down your mood)
- Human biology influences the environment directly (i.e. respiration process, exhaling carbon
dioxide) (as human population increases, predators will increase such as disease, parasites,
viruses)
Primatology
- the theoretical model that explains the relationship between all biological populations
Linnaean Classification
- It is an organic taxonomy
- Naming system that assigns names to all biological populations
- Identifies biological relationships between all organisms
- Examples of latin names: Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Ursus
americanus, Canis familiaris, Canis lupis, Felis silvestris catos,
- Originated
- Carl Linnaeus or Carlus Linnaeus, which then turned to Karl van Linne
- Swedish, medical doctor, and botonist
- Systema Natura (Natural system) the book he published on the classification system
- How does the system work?
▯ Originally
- Binomial: genus, species, a grouped like populations, sexual exclusivity
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- Latin naming system
- Based on observable, morphological, and physiological
y a d o ▯ T
- Bionomial: genus, species, a grouped like populations, sexual exclusivity
- Latin naming system
- Based on observable, morphological, and physiological
- Phylogenetic system: based on evolutionary relationships
Problems with using visible traits to relate organisms
1. Convergent Evolution
- Unrelated evolutionary lines may produce similar str
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