ANTHRO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fokker E.Ii, Edward Burnett Tylor, Bipedalism
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Lecture 3: what makes human different, bipedalism- walk on two feet, loss of honing canine, material culture/tools, hunting, speech, domestication- tinker with plants and animals, culture, central unifying concept of anthropology, human"s primary method of adaptation c) Or any other rules of behavior that are learned and transmitted thru generations - e. b. Change in one -> change in other (d. i. 1. a) Ex: way we learn -> affect laws, beliefs, etc (d. i. 2) Learned and passed on: what do cultures do? e. i) e. ii) e. iii) e. iv) Provide a cultural perception of the universe (e. iv. 1) Sense of meaning (e. iv. 1. a) why we"re here (e. iv. 1. b) (e. iv. 1. c) what happens when we"re not here anymore. Religion: all humans organize experience using s/a/r a. i) a. ii) Religion -> explanation of the universe (a. ii. 1) (a. ii. 2) Studies what you can see a. iii: principles of scientific inquiry a. i) a. ii) Epistemology- study of how you know what you know. Hypothesis: a tentative working explanation of a relationship after looking at a phenomena (a. ii. 2)
