Chapter 1~What is Biological Anthropology Flashcards
Anthropology
the study of humankind from all times
Cultural Anthropolgy
The study of modern human societies through the analysis of the origins, evolution, and variation of culture.
Archaeology
The study of historic or prehistoric human populations through the analysis of material remains.
Linguistic Anthropology
The study of the construction, use, and form of language in human populations.
Biological Anthropology
The study of the evolution, variation, and adaptation of humans and their past and present relatives; sometimes called physical anthropology.
Culture
Learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person.
Cultural Anthropologists typically study where?
Africa, South America and Australia
Language
A set of written or spoken symbols used by humans to refer to things (people, places, concepts, etc.) other than themselves.
sociolinguistics
Sociolinguists
The science of investigating language’s social contexts.
Artifacts
Material objects from past cultures.
Biocultural Approach
The scientific study of the interrelationship between what humans have inherited genetically and culturally.
Genome
The complete set of genetic information—chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA—for an organism or species that represents all the inheritable traits.
Hominins
Humans and humanlike ancestors.
What determines biological makeup?
Your genes and your enviornment
Who led biological anthropology in the US?
Franz Boas, Aleš Hrdlička, and Earnest Hooton
What were the six big events in human evolution and when did they happen?
Bipedalism, 6m
Nonhoning chewing, 5.5m
Material culture and tools, 2.6m
Speach, 2.5m
Hunting, 1m
Domesticated Food, 11,000
Material Culture
The part of culture that is expressed as objects that humans use to manipulate environments.
Hypothesis ____ observations, ____ the results of future investigations, and ___ __ _____ by new evidence
explain,
predict,
can be refuted
Was Darwins hypothesis right that we once lived in trees and then in plains?
No
Scientific Law
A statement of fact describing natural phenomena.
‘mosaic’ evolution
the occurrence, within a given population of organisms, of different rates of evolutionary change in various body structures and functions
