ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Applied Anthropology, Archaeological Science, Paleoanthropology
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Introduction: we are better prepared to face the future because, unlike our ancestors, we have knowledge of how and why old societies failed/succeeded. Evolution: a change in the genetic structure of a population from one generation to the next. Anthropology: the field of inquiry that studies human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology; includes cultural anthropology, archeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Genetics, anatomy, skeletal structure, adaptation to disease, and other environmental factors. Scientific method: an approach to research whereby a problem is identified, a hypothesis (or hypothetical explanation) is stated, and that hypothesis is tested through the collection and analysis of data. Culture: all aspects of human adaptation, including technology, traditions, language, religion and social roles. Species: a group of organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Members of one species are reproductively isolated from members of all other species (i. e. , they can"t mate with them to produce fertile offspring).
