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
