ANTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Primatology, Biological Anthropology, Ethnography
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What is anthropology anthropo human beings logos originallymeaning word reason speech doctrine and later theory or science. Anthropology is the science of the nature of humanbeings. Anthropological linguistics and social cultural are both cultural. Relies on ethnography descriptions of peoples customersand cultures. Emphasizesdiversity of humans around the world has evidenced in culture language. Bio anth in particulartends to emphasizethe similarities across humanpopulations looks for the essence of human nature"s. Nurture are in an evolutionary viewpoint increasingly heavily linked including a bioculturalapproach that emphasizes t"s not one over the role and interactions of culture and human the other howeverbiology. One can have a greater effect than the other. Bio anth is vast in scopeand includes a number of disciplines. Paleoanthropology thefossilrecords ofprimates skeletal bio and humanosteology human skeletal anatomy and patterns ofgrowthand development. Humanbiology studyof human growth and developmentadaptation and genetics. Evolution change over time idea of over time about progress sometimes inferred in its midtermcolloquial use.
