ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Forensic Anthropology, Behavioral Modernity, Dual Inheritance Theory
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Anthropology the field of inquiry that studies human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology. Biocultural evolution a concept expressing that humans are the product of combined influences of biology and culture. Culture all aspects of human adaptation including technology, traditions, language, religion and social roles. A set of learned behaviours transmitted from one generation to the next through learning. Helps distinguish one society from another shapes people"s perceptions of the external environment. Enculturation the process by which individuals, as children, learn the values and beliefs of the family, peer groups, and the society in which they are raised. Cultural/social anthropology the study of all aspects of human behavior stems from the enlightenment an 18th century philosophical movement in western. Europe that assumed a knowable order to the natural world leading to the concepts of primitive/traditional societies this lead to descriptive ethnographies that became the basis of comparison between societies.
