ACS 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anatomically Modern Human, Behavioral Modernity, Cultural Relativism

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h1kang

9 Dec 2021

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Ryerson University

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Arts and Contemporary Studies

Course

ACS 400

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Methodological cultural relativism says: to properly understand a culture different from our own, we have to understand it on its own terms, suspending our own ethical judgments. Eurocentrism a worldview in which the history and doings of european peoples and their settler offshoots serve as the basis by which all human activity is measured. The modernity of racism in the 18th century, biologists like carl linnaeus developed systematic classifications of living organisms. It is not yet known how many people were killed within africa by raiding and conquest to procure slaves for sale to europeans estimates range from about 2 million to over 10 million. Take up the white man"s burden - send forth the best ye breed - go bind your sons to exile to serve your captives" need; to wait in heavy harness on fluttered folk and wild - Your new-caught sullen peoples, half devil and half child .

Related Questions

Which of the following is a true statement about human language? Select one: a. Language capacities are primitive in African apes. b. All described human cultures have language with the same set of layered elements. c. Language learning occurs at very different rates in different populations d. Language-learning ability is purely cultural. e. Some languages lack phonemes.

-human ancestors appear to have originated in africa millions of years ago. describe, in general terms, this progression over the past for human ancestors in africa?

-which group located in the south of africa are the present day decendants of the original Homo sapiens?

-Describe the impact of european colonization and the Berlin Conference on the tribal/ cultures of Africa?

-Why are borders now so much in dispute?

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An African monkey has a DNA sequence that is 96.66% similar to a human sequence. According to the molecular clock, about how long ago did the common ancestor for African monkeys and humans live?

2.5â3 million years ago

5â6 million years ago

13â16 million years ago

17â20 million years ago

Humans and chimpanzees have a common ancestor that lived approximately 5 million years ago. Scientists have amassed an impressive collection of fossils for ancestors to modern humans and placed these ancestors in chronological order to observe the changes that occurred as these organisms evolved more human-like characteristics. Which lines of evidence provide the basis for stating that humans and chimps have a common ancestor that lived approximately 5 million years ago?

homologous structures in humans and chimps

DNA sequence similarity

changes in bone structure

vestigial structures in humans

Which description applies to a vestigial structure or trait?

It is the result of convergent evolution.

It represents evidence supporting the common descent and separate types models for modern organisms.

It did not have a necessary function in more ancestral organisms, but it does in more evolved organisms.

It is a type of homologous trait that is found in diverse organisms.

Which organisms are most closely related?

Bears and raccoons, which are both in the order Carnivora

Cougar and lynx, which are both in the family Felidae