ANTB14H3 Lecture Notes - Fecundity, Selective Breeding, Normal Distribution
22 Oct 2012
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Evo anthro holistic study of human variation (bio/cult/linguis) Globally and through time (holistic) more than just cultural variation today global perspective. Overlaps evo bio, how evo processes as they pertain to human origins and bio variation. Differential evo bio in how they pertain to our evo history and observable human variation. Conduct research in field (includes survey for fossils in africa, excavating neandertal cave site, observing beh in wild) May do in labs, extracting dna, or measure stress hormones in blood samples from primates/humans. Focus on dev better understanding on how evo process play role in evo history of humans (how primates can inform our understanding of human evo history) Primatology: non-human primates (anatomy, beh, thru field studies of wild animals to primate psychology) Paleoanthropology: speciation importance (how this is diff from other forms of evo) Cultural activities reflected in achaeo records (when did we first use tools not necessarily bio evidence but could be looking at stone tools)
