anthropology- grace

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Created Sep 7, 2009
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Culture
 
Strategy by which humans adapt to the natural         ...
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what makes culture possible?
 
-       biology makes cultural possible- biological basis
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Human Biology
 
– study of humans from point of view of their         ...
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Cultural Anthropology
 
study all aspects of behavior                  ...
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Ethnographies
 
catalogs of human behavior:                  ...
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Medical Anthropology
 
explore various aspects of the relationship         ...
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Ethnobotany
 
study of plants in an ethnograph context -       go...
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Archeology
 
classical arch/prehistoric/historica -       reconstruction...
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Archeology address questions like ....
 
-       address questions like developments of agriculture,...
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Physical/Biological Anthropology
 
human biology within and          evolution framework-general...
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Evolution
 
change thru time (general meaning) (exact meaning)- genetic change in pop. From one...
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Evolution occurs is a fact?
 
yes
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Biocultureal Evolution
 
Biology makes culture possible, developing culture further influences the direction of biological evolution 
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Origins of Physical Anthro
 
built on study of huan biological variation 
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Petrus Camper 
 
(1722-1789) 1st to descibe ape anatomy         ...
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Johan Blumenbach
 
(1752-1840)- Founder of Anthropology         ...
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Johan Blumenbach
 
in 1790 defined                  ...
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Morphology
 
Study of shape of anatomical structure (like length)
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Monogenists
 
Camper and Blumenbach considered Biblical         ...
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Polygenist
 
view that all humans descended from 1 or more pairs         ...
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Ales Hrdlicka
 
1st American physical anthropologist 
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Earnest Hooton
 
also American phsical anthropologist
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Anthropometry and Osteometry
 
measures of living body or bones                  ...
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Cephalometrics and Craniometrics
 
measurements of living skull and bone  
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Primatology
 
 a subdivision living/ extinct – fossils and Subfossils (recently         ...
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Human Biology
 
a subdivision living/ extinct                  ...
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Paleoanthropology
 
a subdivision fossils and culture- Paleoanthropologists F. Clark Howell- Father of Paleoanthropology...
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5 Areas of Interest 
 
1.   Age of earth 2.   Possibility of chage 3.   Level...
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Preons
 
proteins in brain- could become modified and reproduces other modified proteins like it,...
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Why is age of earth a problem for anthro? 
 
Conflicts with book of genesis Every society has discussion of how earth came to be-...
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Plato
 
(4th century BC) philosopher- 1 world is intelligible and consits of ideal forms- tangeble...
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Metaphysical dualism
 
Plato- imagination The tangible- real things, perceptible ideals, imperfect copies of your...
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can’t have evolution without...
 
 variation
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Special Creation
 
Christian Theology adopted plato’s concept to literal interpretation of the Book of...
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Aristotle
 
(4th cent. BC) Philosopher          -looked...
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scala naturae
 
pple reasoned that since order is superior to disorder, God’s creations must fit a pattern,  everything...
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Naturalist role
 
catalog links and  discover order to understand  God’s plan     
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Aristotle’s origin of life ideas 4 things
 
·      Every species that could exist did ·      All...
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Aristotle wrote about...
 
-       wrote about Comparative Anatomy and  Spontaneous...
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where did people think things came from for 1700 yrs?
 
Agreement for around 1700 years = small organisms arose out of nothing= Spontaneous Generation
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Anaximander
 
greek philosopher 2500 BC -       Gradual evolution and transformation...
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St. Thomas Aquinas
 
1225-1274 AD -       Lived in monestaries access to...
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Galeleo
 
early 1600’s revives Copernicus’s theory that sun is center of universe 1540 AD
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Newton and Descartes
 
1600's helped develop strictly mechanistic         ...
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Fransisco Redi
 
1668 – 1st person to test Spontaneous Generation           ...
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Arch Bishop Usher
 
1650 Determines age of earth created in 4004 BC oct. 23 directly form book of genesis
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John Lightfoot
 
determined that it was Sunday oct 23 4004 at 9:00 am literal interpretation of bible
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John Ray
 
1691 in his book  “ the wisdom of God manidested in works of creation”         ...
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Teleology
 
(John Ray ) structure of organisms is formed for special purpose -now possible to investigate nature...
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Carlus (Linne’) Linnaeus
 
(1707-78) from Sweden then Holland      -wrote Sytema Naturae-...
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Binomial Nomenclature
 
1.   – latin names for species
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Monogenesist
 
believed in adam and eve, not evolutionary Carlus (Linne’) Linnaeus
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1.   Nested hierarchy 
 
family, genus, species
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taxonomy
 
Carlus Lineaus system  based on nested hierarchies
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type specimen/ concept of type
 
example of animal to represent that group- to stop ppl from submitting fake animals Carlus...
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Count Buffon
 
1707-1788 -       head of royal botanical gardens in...
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Count Buffon
 
-       Wrote “Histoire Naturelle: Generale et particualire”...
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Count Buffon
 
suggested all humans could be divided into four groups on basis of climate, food, customs (...
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Count Buffon
 
Only person to say that different forms had arisen by adaptations- varieties not new species
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Erasmus Darwin 
 
1731-1802          -Grandfather of Charles...
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James Hutton 
 
late 1700’s – farmer, geologist -       had idea...
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Therory of Uniformitarianism 
 
-       2 opposing types of rock/ sediments, Igneous (builds...
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Jean- Baptise lamarck 
 
1744-1829          -1st proponent of organic...
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Theory of Acquired characteristics
 
Jean- Baptise lamarck  ex: giraffe necks grow to read taller tress passed on to next...
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1st proponent of organis evolution – everyone before him believed in fixity of species
 
Jean- Baptise lamarck 
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George Cuvier 
 
1769- 1832 -       hates lemarck -       father...
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Theory of Catastrophism 
 
George Cuvier -       events are regional in scope, kills...
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Diluvium
 
events are regional in scope, kills everything with re-population from neighboring areas like...
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Charles Lyell 
 
1797-1875 -       founder of Modern Geology -       wrote...
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Thomas Malthus 
 
1706-1834      Wrote “an essay on principles of popultation”     ...

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