Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Questions
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What does Cultural anthropology focus on? Focused on "exotic", non western societies
Urban Anthropology deals with issues of inner cities
Medical Anthropology explores relationship between culture and health.
Archaeology Study and interpreta...
Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Questions
And Answers
What does Cultural anthropology focus on? Focused on "exotic", non western societies
Urban Anthropology deals with issues of inner cities
Medical Anthropology explores relationship between culture and health.
Archaeology Study and interpretation of material remains recovered from earlier cultures
in order to understand past human behaviors.
What does Archaeology focus on? largely deals with the past
Linguistic study of the origin, variation, and relationships if language and language
groups among human societies
What doe linguistics focus on? The use of language is a unique human characteristic
, Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Questions
And Answers
Biological The study of the human biology and behavior within an evolutionary context
What are 3 major criteria of anthropology? Evolutionary, Comparative, and Holistic
Evolutionary The descent with modifications of different lineages from common
ancestors, and ultimately, one common ancestor. All forms of life are related by unbroken chains
of descent.
Comparative Gaining knowledge about a topic by looking at the similarities and
difference among two or more groups, cultures, species, etc. who possesses the topic we're
interested in.
Holistic Understanding phenomena by looking at it in its entirety. Emphasizes
interrelationships.
Primate a group of mammals comprising prosimians (e.g. lemurs) monkey, apes, and
humans
, Biological Anthropology Exam 1 Questions
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Species A group of similarly looking organisms capable of interbreeding
Evolutionary tree a diagram showing evolutionary relationships among species or groups
of species
Hominid A bipedal member of the evolutionary lineage leading to modern human. There
is one living (us) and many extinct ones.
What is the scope of biological anthropology? The study of the human biology and
behavior within an evolutionary context. The evolutionary and comparative analysis of humans
as members of the primate lineage.
What are the specializations within biological anthropology? Anthropological genetics,
human biology, paleoanthropology, primate paleontology, primatology, forensic anthropology.
Genetics The study of inherited traits
What are the primary data we gather from studying genetics? genes and chromosomes
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