ARCH 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Comparative Anatomy, Molecular Anthropology, Jane Goodall

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 131
• Professor: Daniel Smith

Document Summary

1. 1 to identify the subfields of anthropology and explain their applications to the study of the human species. 1. 2 explain the subfields of biological anthropology and discuss how they try to answer key questions about human species. 1. 3 review the development of biological anthropology in the u. s, including its change in focus over time. Engage in scientific study of human kind ( study ancient fossils, observe primate behaviour, study evolution of the human brain. Humans are biological creatures, primates and share a recent ancestry with living great apes products of millions of years of evolution by natural selection. Biological anthropologist try to understand details of evolutionary process and how it shaped humans. Primate- member of the mammalian order primates, including prosimians, monkeys, apes and humans, defined by a suite of anatomical and behavioural traits. Evolution- a change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations.