ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Edward Elric, Earlobe
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The inclusion and combination of both biological and cultural perspectives and approaches to comment on or solve a particular issue or problem. Cultural anthropology the study of human society and culture. Describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. Archaeological anthropology reconstructs, describes, and interprets human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains. Paleoecology: looking at the ecosystems of the past. Biological application- an explanation for the origin of organisms. Developed the first comprehensive classification, or taxonomy, of plants and animals based on similarities and differences in their physical characteristics. Influenced by sir charles lyell (the father of geology) Voyage to south america aboard the beagle (position: naturalist) (1831-1836) Wrote "on the origin of species" in 1858. The processes that shaped the earth back then are the same processes that shape the earth today (the present is the key to the past) Reaches a similar conclusion to darwin on natural selection.
