Bio Anthropology: Exam 1
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What is anthropology? - ✔✔The anti-reductive/holistic study of humankind in all its
aspects.
What are Anthropology's subfields? - ✔✔Biological Anthropology, Archaeology,
Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Who founded American Anthropology? - ✔✔Franz Boaz
What do cultural anthropologists do? - ✔✔1. Using the method of ethnography, cultural
anthropologists study human culture in its many diverse forms
2.
What do linguistic anthropologists do? - ✔✔Linguistic anthropologists study the
construction of language by human societies. As opposes to other kinds of linguists,
linguistic anthropologists typically study language within its social or cultural context.
What do archaeologists do? - ✔✔Archaeologists excavate, collect, and analyze artifacts
and the material culture of the past. Archaeologists study what has been left behind by
people and what we can learn about them and their society.
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,What do biological anthropologists do? - ✔✔Biological anthropologists study all aspects
of human biology using
scientific methods in a theoretically engaged framework.
The primary focus of research in biological anthropology is the evolution and
biocultural variation of humans and our closest living and fossil relatives.
What two core concepts underly the work of biological anthropologists? - ✔✔1.We are
influenced by a shared evolutionary history
2.We are influenced by local histories and individual lived experiences
What are the six sub-subfields of biological anthropology? - ✔✔Primatology,
Paleoanthropology, Human Biology, Anthropological Genetics, Bioarchaeology, and
Forensics
Primatology - ✔✔The study of the non- human primates and their anatomy, genetics,
behavior, and ecology
Paleoanthropology - ✔✔The study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their
primate kin
Human Biology - ✔✔The study of biological variation in modern populations and how
it is adapted to and influenced by ecological and social factors
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, Anthropological Genetics - ✔✔The study of human genetic variation, population
history, and adaptation among living and ancient peoples, and how these features are
shaped by ecological and social factors
Bioarchaeology - ✔✔The study of human remains in an archaeological context, and how
human biology is shaped by long term ecological and social change
Forensics - ✔✔The study of recent human remains and body decomposition often
applied within a legal context for identification
. What is science? - ✔✔Science is one form of knowledge production based the
empirical study of the natural world.
It is an epistemological system that it is concerned with the subset of all knowledge that
can be gained using the scientific method and the technologies available at a given place
and time.
Ontology - ✔✔The state of being or existence, what "really is"
Epistemology - ✔✔What can be known and how can we know it.
what are the historical contexts and key figure(s) involved in the development of
science? - ✔✔Science and the scientific method as we now know it emerged during the
Age of Enlightenment in 18th century Western Europe, which emphasized empirical
forms of evidence, skepticism, logical reasoning, and reductionism. Limit bias and
passion in scientific reasoning.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is anthropology? - ✔✔The anti-reductive/holistic study of humankind in all its
aspects.
What are Anthropology's subfields? - ✔✔Biological Anthropology, Archaeology,
Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Who founded American Anthropology? - ✔✔Franz Boaz
What do cultural anthropologists do? - ✔✔1. Using the method of ethnography, cultural
anthropologists study human culture in its many diverse forms
2.
What do linguistic anthropologists do? - ✔✔Linguistic anthropologists study the
construction of language by human societies. As opposes to other kinds of linguists,
linguistic anthropologists typically study language within its social or cultural context.
What do archaeologists do? - ✔✔Archaeologists excavate, collect, and analyze artifacts
and the material culture of the past. Archaeologists study what has been left behind by
people and what we can learn about them and their society.
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,What do biological anthropologists do? - ✔✔Biological anthropologists study all aspects
of human biology using
scientific methods in a theoretically engaged framework.
The primary focus of research in biological anthropology is the evolution and
biocultural variation of humans and our closest living and fossil relatives.
What two core concepts underly the work of biological anthropologists? - ✔✔1.We are
influenced by a shared evolutionary history
2.We are influenced by local histories and individual lived experiences
What are the six sub-subfields of biological anthropology? - ✔✔Primatology,
Paleoanthropology, Human Biology, Anthropological Genetics, Bioarchaeology, and
Forensics
Primatology - ✔✔The study of the non- human primates and their anatomy, genetics,
behavior, and ecology
Paleoanthropology - ✔✔The study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their
primate kin
Human Biology - ✔✔The study of biological variation in modern populations and how
it is adapted to and influenced by ecological and social factors
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, Anthropological Genetics - ✔✔The study of human genetic variation, population
history, and adaptation among living and ancient peoples, and how these features are
shaped by ecological and social factors
Bioarchaeology - ✔✔The study of human remains in an archaeological context, and how
human biology is shaped by long term ecological and social change
Forensics - ✔✔The study of recent human remains and body decomposition often
applied within a legal context for identification
. What is science? - ✔✔Science is one form of knowledge production based the
empirical study of the natural world.
It is an epistemological system that it is concerned with the subset of all knowledge that
can be gained using the scientific method and the technologies available at a given place
and time.
Ontology - ✔✔The state of being or existence, what "really is"
Epistemology - ✔✔What can be known and how can we know it.
what are the historical contexts and key figure(s) involved in the development of
science? - ✔✔Science and the scientific method as we now know it emerged during the
Age of Enlightenment in 18th century Western Europe, which emphasized empirical
forms of evidence, skepticism, logical reasoning, and reductionism. Limit bias and
passion in scientific reasoning.
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