Chapter 1 - Physical Anthropology Flashcards

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Who is Charles Darwin?

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A Physical Anthropologist (Evolution)

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What are characteristics of physical anthropology?

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  • Human Origins
  • Similarities and Differences
  • Scientific study
    - Biology, DNA, Human genome project
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Natural selection

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  • Biological Inheritance
  • Environmental Adaptation
  • Sexual Selection
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Common ancestory

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  • Still debated, date and humans dispersion
  • “Survival of the Fittest”
  • Used to justify imperialism and genocide
  • Unscientific
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Non-anthropological (Charles Darwin)

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Social Darwinism

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Why study other primates?

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  • Similar but not the same
  • Common ancestors
  • Clues to evolution
  • why are we human
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Who is Otzï?

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The ice man. He was used as a great example, as he was well preserved due to the snow and ice, to learn more about how people lived in this time

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Who is Jane Goodall?

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A british anthropologist

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What did she set out to accomplish?

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To interact with chimps and study the similarities/differences between humans and chimps

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