ANTHR310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Human Evolution, Evolutionism, Estrous Cycle
12 Jan 2017
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Chapter 5: the evolution of gender and difference. Among physical and biological anthropologists, both historically and today, the search for human origins has been a central concern. Contemporary biological anthropologists often employ sophisticated types of evidence and techniques to reconstruct the evolutionary connections among hominids and among out ways of life and theirs in the past: hominid evolution does(cid:374)"t follo(cid:449) a st(cid:396)aight li(cid:374)e of de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. 19th century social evolutionists wanted to find explanations not only for the evolution of society but also for the gender differences they observed in their own societies. This includes women"s (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al inferiority: however, by the 20th century, social evolutionism was abandoned because of problematic assumptions. Despite fossil evidence, there is no direct evidence on how they behaved or thought. Sociobiology: an academic discipline begun by e. o. wilson in the 1970s that posits natural selection as the force leading to development of nearly all aspects of social behavior in animals, including humans.
