ANT203H5 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 of course book
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The science of human cultural and biological variation and evolution. Behavior that is shared, learned and socially transmitted. An approach to study humans in terms of the interaction between biology and culture in evolutionary adaptation. An approach of comparing human populations to determine common and unique behaviors or biological traits. It is holistic (integrating all aspects of existence in understanding human variation and evolution) The difference that exist among individuals or populations. The process of successful interactions between population and environment. Adaptation are often specific to a particular environment (what is adaptive in one environment may not be in another) focuses on variations in cultural behavior among human population. focuses on cultural variations in pre-historic (and some historic) populations by analyzing the culture"s remain. focuses on the nature of human language, the relationship of language to culture, and the languages of non-literate people.
