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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/26/2010

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Anthropology-

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A discipline of infinite curiosity about human beings.

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Holistic

Definition
multifaceted
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Physical Anthropology- seeks to answer two questions:

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The first set includes questions about emergence of humans and their later evolution

 

The second set includes questions about how and why contemporary human populations vary biologically

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human paleontology or paleoanthropology.

Definition
 questions about emergence of humans and their later evolution
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 human variation

Definition
how and why contemporary human populations vary biologically
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Primatologists

 

Definition
anthropologists, psychologists,and biologists that specialize in the study of primates.
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Homo Sapiens

Definition
all living people
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Cultural anthropology

Definition
concerned with universals and variation in the culture in the past and present
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