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Evolutionary anthropology: application of modern evolutionary theory to studies of morphology, ecology, and behaviour of human and non-human primates. Primatology, paleoanthropology, human variation, medical anthro, forensic anthro, Problems that limited the development of the theory of evolution: Religious notion of separate creation for humans and animals. Church says earth was made 4004 bc, pronouncements were law, religiously and secularly. We are made in the image of the creator, and therefore humans are fixed. Accepted concepts were based on singular observations and fanciful accounts from travels. Religious doctrines say god made humans separate from animals, in the image of god, so maybe animals can change, but not humans. On basis of physicial resemblances, species grouped into broader categories called genera (genus) Binomial nomenclature: first letter of genus is capitalized: homo, and italicized because different language. But in the end, made gorillas and other primates in the same group as humans.
