ANTH 1810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Microevolution, Osteology, Australopithecus
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The study of humans: major fields: cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and. Humans have adaptations that are limited to their environment. Microevolution- small changes that happen over a short amount of time: osteology- the study of bones, forensic anthropology- where we try to identify the individual and make a cause of death, make a profile of the person. Pathology- things that go wrong with the skeleton. Human paleontology- investigate hominins-bipedal apes: tong child is the first human ancestor found in 1925 by the u. s. Science is a way of asking questions about the world. Why is a question for literature/film studies, law, religion, etc: mostly used for motivation, used for philosophy. Data is key to thinking about how the world works. Science is very interested in finding out new things. Ptolemy- geocentrism: all the things in the sky move around us.
