ANTHRO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: East Los Angeles College, Sociocultural Anthropology, Creation Science
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Culture: behavior that is shared, learned and socially transmitted. Linguistic anthropology: human language, relationship of language to culture. Evolution of humans and ancestors, relation to organisms, biological variation in human populations. Science: structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Oxymoron of creation science: change over time is not proved but is the most useful thing we have on how change is happening biologically. Ex: time, space, cause and effect, uniform materialism. Provisional: accept ideas that seem solid right now but can change your mind. Theories: tested hypotheses that have not been rejected. Sir isaac newton can account for orbiting earth, tides, and how to build a bridge. Space and time is warped, perceive of gravity is movement between time space warp. Ex: all swans are white travel to find white swan found only white swans failed to disprove hypothesis. Potential must exist for a hypothesis to be rejected.
