ANTH 1120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 16: Thomas Robert Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
16 Sep 2015
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Anthropology: global + comparative study of humankind, past and present. Anthropology linguistic: study of the origin, evolution and use of languages. Biological anthropology: study of the biological origins, evolution and contemporary diversity of humans and their primate relatives. Cultural anthropology: study of the structure and function of human societies, usually from a cross-cultural perspective. Human biology: branch of biological anthropology that examines modern population diversity. Osteology: descriptive and comparative study of bones and teeth. Paleoanthropology: study of human evolution through fossils and the circumstances in which they were found. Paleopathology: study of ancient disease and trauma. Primatology: study of the morphology, behaviour, and evolution of non-primate humans. Bering strait: links the bering sea to the arctic sea between alaska and russia. Believe that aboriginals colonized america by migrating across the bering strait ~15, 000 ya. Chapter 2 science and the development of evolutionary theory.
