ANTH 1001 Lecture : Unit 1 Notes
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**anthropology is biocultural approach to the study of humans; anth is holistic** Biocultural- biological blended with cultural aspects of humans. A goal of anth is to understand what it means to be human. Ethnocentric is the idea that someone thinks their way of life is better than everyone else"s, not a good thing for an anthropologist. Darwin influences: carolus linnaeus, binomial nomenclature- classification scheme for organisms which became basis for modern taxonomy, buffon, worked for the king"s garden, noticed that species adapt due to their environment. If it was world wide than he believed there was multiple creation events. If it was localized then life forms of other areas would move in a re populate the record. That is how he described the fossil record, with. Examples if natural selection: peppered moths, antibiotic resistance- common use of antibiotics led to resistance and ineffective now, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (mdr tb)- resistant to two or more primary drugs used to treat it.
