ANTHR101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biological Anthropology, Primate, Sociolinguistics
5 Feb 2017
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They are interested in both universals and differences in human populations. They want to discover when, where, and why humans appeared on earth, how and why they have changed since then, and how and why modern human populations vary in the biological and cultural feautures. Anthropologists are interested in people of all periods. The holistic approach is the idea that something as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Example: for culture, there are many parts that make it as a whole today, food, clothing, etc. Their curiosity focuses mainly on typical characteristics (traits, customs) of human groups and how to understand and explain them. Deals with biological and physical characteristics of humans. This field seeks to answe(cid:396) 2 (cid:395)uestions . First set: is about the emergence of humans and their evolution. This focus is called (human paleontology or paleoanthropology) Paleontologists search for and study the buried and fossils of humans,prehumans,etc to reconstruct human evolution.
