ANT 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Anthropology, Brainstem, Intracerebral Hemorrhage
19 Jan 2017
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Anthropology is the study of the human condition. It is the most holistic of the social sciences, incorporating every aspect of humanity, both cultural and physical, to better our understanding of what it means to be a human being. The field is divided into 4 subfields: sociocultural, linguistics, archeology, and biological. Learned behavior: humans learn by speaking (language innate adaptation; abstract, observations. Forensic anthropology is the application of knowledge of human variation, skeletal biology, biomechanics and other sub-disciplines of biological anthropology to matters of medicolegal importance. Forensic anthropologists apply the theories, methods, and techniques of biological anthropology to matters of medico-legal significance. *no matter your major, you can be a forensics expert* Forensic anthropologists consult on medical examiner"s cases in which the remains have become skeletonized, decomposed, burned, fragmented, or are otherwise unidentifiable. In anthropology, you focus on bones and/or what is left over of a once-living being. In medicine, doctors, nurses, and physicians are working with living people.
