ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Anthropology, Primatology, Human Height
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Examines cultural variation among humans culture = learned behavior. The study of language and their cultural in uences ex: rate of disappearance of languages, how people use language in their daily lives, how words are gained. The study of humans in the past through material record. Types of biological anthropology: human genetics: answers anthropological questions using genetic evidence, primatology: study of nonhuman primates ex: gorillas playing tag. Similar behavior seen in humans: paleoanthropology: the study of our fossil ancestors ex: homo naledi. Brain size similar to the species before us. Yet brain function is similar to ours: bioarchaeology/forensics: the study of human skeletal remains and their archeological context ex: egypt v. nubia (modern sudan) You can see how much a muscle was used. Arthritis = how often they were using their joints. Dietary reconstruction = look at atomic units/isotope ratio. Not working that much (most likely scribes)
