ANTH 1001 Lecture : Anthropology Notes 2
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Physical anthropology: human biological evolution, evolutionary theory, human bicultural variation, life history. Scientific method: question, background research, hypothesis, experiment, data, conclusion, present information. What do physical anthropologist study: bones and teeth, blood and genetics, infectious diseases, nutrition, reproduction, growth and development, aging, primate social behavior, brain biology, living and dead, endless possibilities, interdisciplinary science, biology, geology, geography, chemistry. Challenges to darwin"s theories: the special place of humans in nature, the perfect fit of organisms to their environment, teleology: the apparent design of organisms, special creation and the immutability (fixity) of species, the age of the earth. 2 sex- chromosomes (xy: xx female, xy male, 23 homologous chromosomes. Protein synthesis and gene expression: proteins, amino acids, unique functions, rna, mrna, trna. Alleles in populations: phenotype frequency, the percentage of individuals in a population that exhibits a given phenotype, 40 purple people, 120 red people. Evolution and the gene pool: gene pool, the collection of alleles (look in book)
