ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conservation Biology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Holistic study of humans, past and present that draws and builds upon knowledge from the social sciences, biological sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences. Ignorance is a disease destroying the fabric of society . Historical development, mechanisms, and outcomes of biological evolution. Diversity of life and the natural processes that produced this diversity. Primate fossil record, basic understanding of patterns and processes that evolved in the hominin branch. Basic ecology, behavior and conservation biology of extant (living) primates. Apply biological concepts in their research on human health disease and forensics. Analysis and interpretation: archaeological data (artifacts, ecofacts, sites, interpretation. Traces of human behavior: earliest stone tools around 2. 5 mya. From african origins to peopling of entire globe.