ANTHRO 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Westermarck Effect, Elman Service, Lewis H. Morgan
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23:26: sapir-whorf hypothesis: a persons language determines how they view the world (doesn"t have much support) 4 main subfields: linguistic, evolution, biological, archeology, cultural. Linnaeus: taxonomy= a science of classifying things by similarities, way of classifying, not definite, a system based on classifying things based on morphology, system of nature, (taphonomy)= study of processes by which animal remains become preserved as fossils. Homindids = humans and all of our ancestors: bipedal locomotionb, foramen magnum placement (anterior in bipedal), hole in skull that attaches to spine. Femoral angle : in ape: straight down, in human: angles out, knee, broad pelvis, bowl shaped because we have to support all of our upper body, not flat like others". Ardipithecus ramidus (4mya) oldest one: foramen magnum (h, broad pelvis (h, divergent big toe (a, flexible wrist, small brain (a) Australopithecines (4-1. 6mya: gracile , a. africanus, a. aferensis(lucy), more like us, robustus , a. boiseii, a. robustus, a. aethiopicus (only in africa)
