[ANTH 225] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (69 pages long!)

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 225
• Professor: De Ruiter Darryl

Document Summary

Nutritional anthropologists study the relationships between dietary components, cultural practices, physiology, as well as certain aspects of health and disease. these areas of inquiry are fundamental to modern adaptation and can provide insights to hominin evolution. Molecular anthropologists use tech to investigate the evolutionary relationships between humans and nonhuman primates. Charles darwin and darwinism evolution is the fundamental, underlying theory uniting all of the life sciences (and earth sciences such as paleontology) underlies all medical sciences as well. 4. there is a real and noble universe the universe operates according to certain understandable rules or laws these laws don"t change over time or space observation, experimentation and research can uncover these laws. 4. observation, experimentation and research can uncover these laws. Anthropological perspective what are the major anatomical components of bipedal locomotion and how do they differ from quadrupedal apes? avoidance of the ethnocentric (viewing other cultures from biased perspective of one"s own culture) pitfalls cultural relativism.