ANTH 1001 : Anth Exam 1 Notes
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Culture surrounding athletes- treated differently than average person: ex. Definition of physical anthropology: study of human biological evolution and of human bio-cultural variation. Simpler definition: study of humans as biological creatures, past and present, and of other primates. Invention of printing press (1400s: darwin"s influences, carolus linnaeus (1707-1778, binomial nomenclature (way of classifying organisms, buffon (1707-1788) recognized the influence of the environment, lamarck (1744-1829) Inheritance of acquired characteristics ( lamarckism : characteristics that r acquired in an individual"s lifetime can be inherited by their offspring, ex. Wind, rain, erosion, etc. : as a result, the landscape of e is constantly changing, calculated e to be billions of yrs. old, malthus (1766-1834, demographer (studied populations, population size is limited by resource availability. If pop. exceeds availability- higher mortality rate: alfred wallace (1823-1913, naturalist, natural selection, charles darwin: Joined scientific expedition after college graduation: wrote origin of species (1859, data he had amassed abt natural selection, natural selection, survival of the fittest .
