[ANT100Y1] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Evolutionary anthropology: historical development mechanisms, and outcomes of biological evolution, diversity of life and the natural processes that produced this diversity, the primate fossil record, with a basic understanding of patterns and processes that evolved in the hominin branch, the basic ecology, behaviour, and conservation biology of extant (living) primates, how evolutionary anthropologists apply biological concepts in their research on human health, disease, and forensics. The application of modern evolutionary theory to studies of morphology, ecology, and behaviour of human and nonhuman primates. Primate anatomy, field studies of wild animals, primate psychology. Primatologists seek to conserve primates in vanishing tropical ecosystems (eg. mouse lemurs in madagascar) Biological evolution of humans and nonhuman primates. Eg geographic and climatic variations in body size, skin colour, and eye colour. How social, environmental, and biological factors influence health and illness of individuals at the community, regional, national, and global levels.