ANTHROP 1AB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Blood Type, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics
10 Dec 2012
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Anthropologists study human beings as a biological organism and as people with distinctive and unique culture. Four subfields of anthropology consists of: physical anthropology, archaeology anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology/ethnology. Physical anthropology researches human evolution and modern human variation. Fossils are used to trace back humans ancestry. Paleoanthropology is the study of human evolution: palaeontologists examine fossils and remains and study humans and their ancestry. Other physical anthropologist examines primates to observe the human evolution. Primatology is the study of primates: studies gorillas, gibbons and orang-utans. Some groups of physical anthropologist studies the physical characteristics such as: body size, skin tone, blood type, physical anthropology. Physical anthropologist are interested in how humans adapt to environmental conditions such as cold weather, high altitudes etc. Physical anthropology research has provided patterns of human violence. Genetics was a key source for physical anthropologist to research on human disease and evolution.
