ANTHROP 2FF3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Premolar, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Hominidae

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Biological makeup is influenced by genes and environment. Comparative (humans have in common? differ? reasons for difference?) Holistic (how can we understand the entire picture of the human condition?) Anthro: study of material remains and cultural features in order to reconstruct the daily life and customs of people who lived in the past, trace and explain cultural change. Biocultural approach --> look at from biological and cultural perspectives. Culture: learned behaviour that is transmitted from person-person (generation-generation) Humans are culture making species: biological/physical. Study of biological evolution and human biocultural variation. All aspects of present and past human biology: archaeology. Study material remains and culture to reconstruct past and explain cultural change (artefacts) Artefacts: material objects from past culture: linguistic. Language: set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things other then themselves. Structural or descriptive linguistics: physical structure of language (how languages differ) * 2 lineages: modern human (homo), living chimps (pan)

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