ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lactose Intolerance, Biological Anthropology, Primatology
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Accounts for evolutionary (biological anthro) and cultural (cultural anthro) factors. The study of human kind everywhere and through time. How and why modern human pops vary in certain features? (ie. why some pops lactose intolerant and not others) Humans are a primate therefore our understanding of humans necessitates an understanding . Deals with evolution and how it relates to human kind. Study of human biology and culture with in the framework of evolution. Mid 19th century physical anthro was born. Mid 20th century (cid:862)new physical anthro(cid:863) trained anthropologists studying. Anatomical and behavioural evolution of human as shown in the fossil record identify early human and human like species and define the chronological sequence of their relationships.
