Transcript Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind

Exploring Biological Anthropology:
The Essentials, 3rd Edition
CRAIG STANFORD
JOHN S. ALLEN
SUSAN C. ANTÓN
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Chapter 1
What is Biological Anthropology?
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Anthropology and Its Subfields
Cultural
Anthropology
Archaeology
Linguistic
Anthropology
Biological
Anthropology
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Cultural Anthropology
The study of human societies,
especially in a cross-cultural context
•Ethnology
•Ethnography
•Applied Anthropology
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Archaeology
The study of the material culture of past
peoples
•Artifacts
•Material Culture
•Salvage Archaeology
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Linguistic Anthropology
The study of language, its history and use;
also called anthropological linguistics
•Linguistic form
•Linguistic function
•Social Context
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Biological Anthropologist:
Any scientist studying evolution as it
relates to the human species
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The Scope of
Biological Anthropology
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Paleoanthropology
Skeletal Biology and Osteology
Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology
Forensic Anthropology
Primatology
Human Biology
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Paleoanthropology
The study of the fossil record
of
ancestral humans and their
primate kin
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Skeletal Biology and Human Osteology
The study of the skeleton and
the
patterns and processes of
human growth,
physiology, and development
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Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology
The study of the disease
in ancient
human populations
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Forensic Anthropology
The study of human
remains
applied to a legal
context
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Primatology
The study of the non-human primates and
their anatomy, genetics, behavior, and
ecology
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Human Biology
Deals with human growth and
development,
adaptation to environmental extremes,
and human genetics
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The Roots of Modern Biological
Anthropology
•Fossil hominid discoveries
•Darwin
•Physical anthropology
•Sherwood Washburn’s Synthesis
•Field studies
•New dating techniques
•Multidisciplinary approach
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