ANTH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: List Of Fossil Primates, Homo Sapiens, Molecular Anthropology
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Theory: an explanation of cultural or natural phenome, supported by reliable data. Doctrine: an assertion of opinion or belief formally handed down by an authority as true and indisputable. Scientific inquire: seeks testable explanations for observed phenomena. Hypothesis, research data tests and contributes to wider theory. Anthropology is empirical and aims to be objective. Study of human as biological organisms and human diversity. Human: fossil record, genetics, growth and development, adaptation, and biology and behavior of nonhuman primates. Follows migration patterns that are beyond generational memory. Study of evolution to understand the origins and predecessors of the present human species. Investigations include mammalian evolution, primate evolution, as well as studying or lineage as homo sapiens. Comparing fossils to ancestors of living human population. Investigations focus understanding of life ways of our ancestors by researching primates our ancestral cousins. Human, growth, adaptation, and variation study: specialization in human growth and development.
