ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dual Inheritance Theory, Urban Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
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Language diversity is a good rough measure of cultural diversity. Regardless of cultural variation, humans show less genetic variation than can be found in a group of wild chimpanzees. Unique among animals in that we ask why? Evolution: change in the genetic structure from one generation to the next. Frequently used to refer to the appearance of a new species. Anthropology: study of human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology. Multiple aspects to study what it is to be human. All topics related to behaviour ( beliefs, religion, ritual, technology, economic and political systems) and biology (genetics, anatomy, skull structure, ability to adapt to disease and other factors. All the evolutionary processes that resulted in the development of modern humans) Anthropologists apply the scientific method as well as interpretive methods to achieve an understanding of human qualities such as love, individual or group identity, compassion and ethnicity. Biocultural evolution: mutual, interactive evolution of human biology and culture.
