ANTH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Georges Cuvier, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, James Ussher
8 Sep 2016
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Anthropology: the holistic study of the human species, its past, its present, its biology, its culture, its language. This course is an introduction to human evolution and an overview of biological. Anthropology: this means we will consider human beings as biological organisms, as part of this study, we will look at variation and how it came to be in other words, Change: but we also consider culture this is sometimes called biocultural . Cultural adaptations: a/c, wearing multiple layers in the winter, etc. Biological anthropology is a scientific way of knowing. Some science is based on repeated experimentation (e. g. chemistry), other science is based upon observation without experimentation (e. g. astronomy) We observe! we figure out what has happened to lead to that point. Doing science: identify the problem based on earlier observations, state the hypothesis (explanation, collect relevant data (additional observations, test the hypothesis (rejection or acceptance)
