1What is Anthropology?
Study of humankind
2What are the four types of anthropology?
Cultural anthropology,
Archaeology,
Linguistic Anthropology,
Biological Anthropology
3Definition of biological anthropology
the study of human biological evolutions and biocultural variations
4What are the two events Clark Larson questioned in terms of how humans adapted to them?
The advance of agriculture and the arrival of Europeans to America
5What did Clark Larson find after studying skeletons?
He found that Native Americans hunted and gathered eventually domesticated to grow corn
Bone health showed that the people overall became shorter and had more infections
6Definition of Forensic Anthropology
Identifying different human remains
7Definition of Molecular Genetics
Using DNA to understand human variation and how we are related to other primates
8What six evolutionary events set humans apart from other creatures?
Bipedalism, loss of honing canine, material culture and tools, hunting, language, and domestication
9What is Bipedalism?
Walking on two feet
10What is the loss of honing canine?
No largely shaped canine teeth; our canines are relatively smaller than those of apes
11What made Material Culture and Tools special to humans?
Originally made of stone and wood; essential to survival on earth; little evidence shows tools were used to hunt
12What is unique about human hunting?
Humans specifically used sophisticated tools to hunt
13Why doesn't human language have an evolution date?
Language isn't fossilized so it is difficult to say when it evolved
14What did humans do in terms of domestication?
We started to manipulate the breeding of plants and animals to yield the best and highest amount of food.
15What aspects of our evolution is brain development related to?
Hunting, language, and domestication of food
16How has the brain changed over time?
It's volume has increased, and it now burns 20% of the fuel we take in
17Definition of science
A question driven evidence based understanding of the natural world
18Definition of Data
The objective facts gained through current observation or previous experiments that can either support or refute a hypothesis
19Definition of hypothesis
An educated guess based on data/ observation
20Definition of theory
When a number of hypotheses can be combined to explain a certain scientific phenomenon