[ANTH 242] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (17 pages long!)
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Four fields of anthropology: cultural: the study of cultures and societies of human beings and their very recent past. Two main concepts: people are products of evolutionary history. Biological changes over time leading to humans: people are products of individual life history. Subfields of biological anthropology: forensic anthropology/skeletal biology: legal with human remains, genetics: population movements, relationship with other organisms, genome sequence. Svanto pablo: human biology: how humans live in their environments, paleoanthropology: study of past humans (hominins, primatology: study of primates and their behavior, anatomy and physiology, relation to us. House flies have more genetic diversity than humans. Six distinguishing features of hominins: bipedalism (6 mya, non-honing canines (5. 5 mya): In primates: not used for eating, used for social displays, honing (sharpening) of it occurs. Standardized research procedure in which a hypothesis is stated, data are collected to test it, and the hypothesis is either supported or refuted. Only deals with natural phenomena: scientific method:
