ANTA01H3 Midterm: Anthro MidtermReview
Document Summary
Global and stretches to the earliest stages of human time. Includes forms of communication without written language or formalized records. Linguistic anthropology- how languages influences social life, and the unwritten languages. Archaeology: study of human past through the examination of its material remains. You look at material culture such as tools, arts, and structures. A change in genetic structure of a population from one generation to the next . Biblical creationism: earth was created by god relatively recently, large scale changes to earth"s surface are product of catastrophes (catastrophes, living beings do not change through time, fossils can be explained away. The theory that the earth"s features are the result of long term processes that continue to operate today as they did in the past . James hutton started this idea of uniformitarianism. Adaptation: a feature of an organism that increases the likelihood of its survival and reproduction in a particular environment.
