ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Paleoanthropology
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Urban, medical, applied anthropology: physical human biology within the framework of evolution + bio cultural interxn paleoanthropology (study of human evolution) has revealed fossil records, goal is to identify various hominin species and map them anthropometry measurement of human body parts (measuring skeletal elements called osteometry) genetic data impt. Molecular anthropologists relationship btw humans and primates (genetic) primatology the study of nonhuman primates, help us understand human behavior primate paleontology primate fossil records, can make assumptions about social behaviour osteology study of the skeleton paleopathology a sub field of osteology that studies traces of disease and injury in human skeletal remains gives us info about the lives of people in the past, the history of certain disease processes forensic anthropology related to osteology and paleopathology, the application of anthropological techniques to legal issues physical anthropologists need thorough knowledge of soft tissue around bones and teeth, anatomical studies: archeology.
