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What is Anthropology? -- LECTURE
- Aspects of human culture
- Economic systems
- Marriage customs
- Religions
- Philosophy
- All behaviors acqured through learning
- Anthropologists are interested in variation in terms of both biology and culture
- Primates
- Share unique characteristics
- Large brains
- Forward facing eyes
- Increased reliance on visual sense
- Fingernails
- Reduced sense of smell
- Humans
- Bipedalism
- Non-honing complex
- Culture
- Symbolic behavior
- Material culture
- Language
- Speech
- Hunting
- Domestication of food items
- Share unique characteristics
- Scientific method
- Observe a natural phenomenon
- Collece data
- Proposes hyphtheses and test them
- Propoise conclusions
- Adaptations are advantageous changes brought about by natural selection