01:070:111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Genocide Convention, Npc1, Endosome
11 Aug 2016
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Anthropology - most humanistic of social sciences; most scientific of humanities. Extinction- no longer living or existing in time. Orthogenesis - noticeable evolutionary direction by a driving force . Wrong because things don"t move in linear way. Cultural anthropologists - ethnography (doing what people from a culture do), participant observation. Falsified - can be false i. e prof. scott wears blue shirts every wed. Naturalistic fallacy - good = natural; would be moral necessity. Franz boas - father of american anthropology, said ethnological phenomena are the result of the physical world. Historical particularism- groups are different because of their particular history. Cultural relativism- no one culture is better than another; every culture can be understood on their own terms. Rudolf virchow - cell theory; influenced boas. Principle of uniformitarianism: same processes going on in past as today. Jean-baptiste lamarck- inheritance of acquired characteristics, influenced darwin file://localhost/ Inheritance of acquired characteristics: hypothesis that behavior can be passed down.
