ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Botany, Biogeography, Carl Linnaeus

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

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Chapter outline: what do evolutionary anthropologists study, how do evolutionary anthropologists conduct their research, development of evolutionary concepts. Anthropology: the global and universal study of human culture and biology: anthro. Is a holistic science that compromises 5 disciplines: socio-cultural anthropology. The comparative study of human cultures and societies: linguistic and semiotic anthropology. Focuses on how language and other systems of human communication contribute to the reproduction, transmission and transformation of culture: archaeology, medical anthropology biology. Scientific study of the material evidence of human activities in the past. Focuses on human health and its relationship with culture, behaviour and: biological anthropology (subdivision of b. a = evolutionary anthropology) Study of humans and non-human primates in their biological and demographic dimensions. Georges-louis leclerc (1707-88: french aristocrat, mathematician and naturalist, most notable contribution: 36 volume historie naturelle (1749-88, founded biogeography: scientific study of geographic distribution of organisms.