ANTH 1001 Chapter : ANTH 1001 Physical Anthropology 1
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A society without sons or fathers, the na of china matrilineal society with no form of male ties: fieldwork when you are going out into the field and collecting data; doing research. It doesn"t necessarily mean going out and going into exotic places. Can be lab work or excavations: malinowski (field work in papua new guinea) Aspects contributing to variations going to the molecular level: primates, human fossils. History of evolutionary thought: charles darwin, species change (i. e. evolution, species not static; influenced by different factors of the outside world, adaptive radiation, from one species can emerge many different species; Common ancestor : gradualism, slow change; occurring gradually through time, natural selection, how the environment influences life forms. How it can affects a species and cause it to change. Middle ages (1000 a. d. ) world views at the time: order, hierarchical order towards life, stasis, things do not change, religious beliefs, the great chain of being, a hierarchical order to life.
