ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Thomas Robert Malthus, Georges Cuvier
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Study other cultures: expose yourself to someone else, ethnocentrism. When you think your culture is the right way, only way, and best way. Field work: excavating, live with another group. Comparative discipline: compare fossils with todays skeletons. Cultural: study of customary patterns in human behavior, thoughts, and feelings, describes, analyzes, interprets and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. Linguistic: the study of language, allows people to preserve and transmit details of their culture from generation to generation, historical, descriptive, socio. Biological: systematic study of humans as biological organisms. Archaeology: zooarcheology, historic, prehistoric, culture resource management, ethnoarchaeology (cid:1) Reject the hypothesis or fail to reject (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) A theory is a hypothesis or series of related hypothesis that have been repeatedly tested and have not been rejected. About half of all amerivans don"t beliebe yhat evolution occurs. Sun orbits the sun and there are only 5 planets: ussher. Everything is created and is fixed: jean baptiste lamarck.