ANT 3541 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Totem Pole, Noam Chomsky, Sigmund Freud
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Biobehavioral anthropology - lecture 1 - ant 3541-0001. Biobehavioral anthropology is roughly defined as the biology of human thought and behavior. Premise that at least some major (degree) of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that makes us human and remarkable, it is a product of learning and socialization. All anthropologist would agree we eat with a fork and spoon, if we were born in china we"d be using chopsticks. We will exam if our biology (with long deep evolutionary history) influences the creature we are. We are neither 100% behavioral creatures nor are we genetic robot, we are a mix, which is what makes us so remarkable. Declaratives in language development proceeds interrogatives, this rule is not ethnocentric, it is true throughout the world. Biology can get in our way - st paul. Men are the cause of most aggression, the record for female homicidal violence is much less than that committed by males.
