ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Selective Breeding, Paradigm Shift, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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Winter anthro notes there are four fields for subfields for anthropology: cultural, linguistic, archeology, and biological anthropology. Ethnographic techniques are applied to the study of diverse subcultures and their interactions with one another in contemporary areas. Linguistic anthropology helps us (1) trace similarities between contemporary languages (2) teach us the development of language skills in human evolution: biological anthropology is concerned with: human beings, non-human primates, our ancestors. Set of learned behaviours transmitted from one generation to the next by non-biological means. Groups of animals and plants could be distinguished by their ability to mate and produce offspring. First to use the categories genus and species. Systema naturae (1735) he established the classification of species the way we know them today. 7 basic layers or taxon levels; kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Binomial system species as a genus and then the species name. Homo sapiens (wise man) record all of god"s creation to earth to expose.