ANTH 168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ancient Dna, Scopes Trial, Testability
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Anthropology: the study of human cultural and biological variation and evolution. Culture is learned behavior, including social systems, economic systems, marriage customs, religion, Biocultural approach: studying humans/primates in terms of the interaction between biology and culture in evolutionary adaptation. Comparative approach: comparing human/primate populations to determine common and unique behaviors or biological traits. Evolution: the change in living organisms over generations. Adaptation: the process of successful interaction between a population and an environment. Holistic approach: takes into account all aspects of existence to understand human variation and evolution. A holistic approach to anthropology includes all four major subfields (linguistic, biological, cultural, Cultural anthropology: variations in cultural behaviors among human populations (both current populations and those in the recent past) also called ethnology. Archaeological anthropology: study of cultural behaviors in the historic and prehistoric past through analysis of the culture"s remains. Linguistic anthropology: the study of language and its relation to culture.
