ANTH 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Anthropology, Binomial Nomenclature, Geologic Time Scale
12 May 2016
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> study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their primate kin. > study of gene structure and action, and patterns of inheritance of traits from parents to offspring. > study the genetic differences between: individuals, populations and species. > as well as the genetics between humans and their close relatives (non-human primates). > study of non-human primates (prosimians, monkeys and apes) & their behavior, ecology, genetics, physiology, anatomy, & conservation. > study of the skeleton (structure and function) Is a science & uses the scienti c method. Science: quantitative, not subjective, questions that can be tested, evidence-based. Age of the earth was ~6,000 years old. Great chain of being with humans at tip. > god created all these creatures, and they are as they are created. Taxonomy- science of classifying and naming organisms based on their biological/ evolutionally relationships. Binomial nomenclature- two-name system for naming living organisms: genus (homo) + species (sapiens)
