ANTH 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Anthropology, Primatology, Macroevolution
4 Oct 2020
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Exam 1 covers material from the following lectures: History of evolutionary thought and mendelian inheritance. Define each of the subfields of anthropology. The study of the material culture of past peoples. The study of language, it"s origins and use. The study of human biology in an evolutionary framework. Define biological anthropology and discuss the fields that make up and contribute to biological anthropology. The study of human biology within an evolutionary framework. Describe the goals of science as a discipline and the steps of the scientific method. Seeks natural causal explanations for observable phenomena. Relies on empirical observation by independent observers. Requires that proposed explanations be falsifiable able to be proven false. Understand and define what a hypothesis is, and what makes a hypothesis good . Hypothesis- a provisional explanation of a phenomenon. Hypotheses are provisional and could be replaced with new data or rejected.
