Chapter one: What is Biological Anthropology Flashcards
What discipline is understood through the framework of evolution and focuses on evolution-and the intersection of biology and culture?
Biological Anthropology
What branch of anthropology studies how cultures are created, preserved, and changed over time and across different social contexts?
Ethnology
What are concepts of evolutionary history?
Individuals are products of genetics and environment: Biology allowed for culture and culture affects our biology
What is drives adaption?
Adaptation is driven by natural selection, where advantageous traits are more likely to be passed on to future generations
Study of non-human primates and their genetics, behavior
Primatology
Who studies study genetics, growth and development and environmental extremes?
Human biology anthropologists
Study of fossil record and primate kin.
Paleoanthropology:
A Western-based scientific framework-empirical, repeatable, self-correcting process, with a variety of steps to answer questions based on data and observations. (Diagram above) It is
Scientific method
What is a key is a key element of a hypothesis?
FALSIFIABILITY
What are the requirements for scientific validity?
Must have a testable hypothesis through data collection and analysis, Hypothesis is subject to change or be nullified, theory is well supported, can be proven false-disproven though empirical evidence
A person who specializes in the study and measurement of the human body’s proportions.
Anthropometrist
A subfield of biological anthropology, which is the study of the biological and behavioral aspects of humans and related primates
Biomedical anthropology
Studies cultures in far-flung places, and they also study subcultures in our own society.
Anthropologists
Biological anthropology is understood through the framework of
evolution
the principle by which biological anthropologists understand the place of humans in the natural world.
Evolution by natural selection
