L48 Anthro 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vertebrate, Haplorhini, Asthma
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Different types of anthropology: cultural anthropology: study of human cultures; what do people"s culture mean to them, linguistics: study of the structure/meaning of languages and their history. What can they say about what people find important: archaeology: study of human behavior as revealed by their material culture, biological (physical) anthropology: the study of the biology of humans. Paleo anthropology: the study of human evolution. Functional morphology: the study of how systems work and how they evolve. Ecology: the study of how organisms interact with the environment. Paleopathology: study or looking at archaeological skeletal remains to figure out diseases/trauma of community. Growth and development: how we progress from fetus to adults. Demography: how population undergo trends (example: birth rate) and how that leads to success or failure. Sociobiology: study of evolution of social behaviors. Bipedalism: be able to walk on two feet. Microevolution: change in the composition below the level of species/populations. Religious influence on the idea of evolution.
