ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Applied Anthropology, Critical Role, Scientific Method
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The more that we understand our biological past, the better we will understand many modern health issues. Anthropology addresses the entire scope of the human experience and brings multiple perspectives to bear on the study of what it is to be human. Interested in all the evolutionary processes that resulted in the development of modern humans. Humans are the combined influences of biology and culture that have shaped our evolutionary history over the last several million years. Culture is an extremely important concept, not only as it pertains to modern humans but also in terms of its critical role in human evolution. Culture is learned ad not biologically determined. In infancy, each of us being learning through process called enculturation: language, dialect, etc. Humans are also subject to the same evolutionary forces that act on all living things. Evolution is ongoing process with a precise genetic meaning.
