ANTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Microbiota, Enculturation, Consumerism
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Anthropologist studies of hunter-gatherer societies have shown that the division of roles imagined by evolutionary psychologists was never as distinct as gender roles: men also gathered, women also hunted. The human genome project finished mapping the genome in 2003. A ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272) dispositio(cid:374) for aggressio(cid:374) (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e (cid:858)tur(cid:374)ed o(cid:374)(cid:859) to lead to aggressi(cid:448)e (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior. Epigenetic marks can be inherited across generations, facilitating integrational transmission of environmental information that may shape the direction of evolutionary change within the species. Culture is learned from the people around us. We have the ability to learn any language and master any set of beliefs, practices, norms, or values: we have the ability to learn any language, master any set of beliefs, practice, norms, or values. Our time, cultural adaptations from fire to language, to birth control to condoms, they have replaced generic adaptions as the primary way humans adapt to and manipulate their physical and social environments.
