ANP 201 Lecture Notes - Biological Anthropology, Empirical Process, Diastema
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The study of all humankind in all contexts, in all times (today, kya, mya). The study of human biological evolution & human biological variation. Seeks why we are what we are as biological organisms. Through the scientific method (the scientific method is a self-correcting approach to knowledge acquisition) 6 steps to scientific method: observations of natural world, identify a problem, formulate a hypothesis, test the hypothesis using data, provisionally. *what is anthropology? anthro uses a broad comparative (holistic) approach. *how do physical anthropologists know what they know? (or reject) the hypothesis, replicate the hypothesis test/formulate an hypothesis. *archaeology: study of past societies and their cultures. *linguistic anthro: study of language, especially how language is structured, evolution of language and the social and cultural contexts for language. *physical (biological) anthro: the study of human evolution and variation, both past and current.
