ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dual Inheritance Theory, Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
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Modern humans are cultural and biological beings. Fundamental motivations for field of anthropology (biological perspective of human. Learn about rich past to profit in future experiences evolution) Evolution = a change in the genetic structure of a population from one gen to next (term often used for appearance of new species) Anthropology addresses entire scope of human experience, and brings multiple experiences to study what it is to be human. Anthropology = field of inquiry that studies human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology; includes cultural anthro, archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthro. Broad focus encompasses topics related to behavior/social relationships (kinship/marriage patterns), religion, ritual, technology, subsistence, economic and political systems. Anthropology also concerned with biological and evolutionary dimensions of our species (genetics/anatomy/skeletal structure/adaption to disease) and other environmental factors (growth/nutrition/all evolutionary processes that ended up in development of modern day humans) Aspects of this discipline rest firmly in science and humanities.
