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What is anthropology
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the study of man in all places at all times
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cultural anthropology
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studies human thought, feelings and behavior. focuses on humans as culture producing and reproducing beings.
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physical (biological) anthropology
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focuses on humans as biological organisms
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linguistic anthropology
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studies language to answer anthropological questions
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archaeology
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studies human culture by the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data
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specializations in anthropology
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primatology
forensic anthropology paleoanthropolgy |
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characteristics of culture
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society's shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors and artifacts used to cope with the world and each other that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning
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cultural relativism
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the idea that no one culture is better or worse than another and to judge another culture based on your own cultural beliefs in biased and unscientific
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Why is cultural relativism important?
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it allows anthropologists to study cultures in their own right as opposed to comparing them to the beliefs and standards of another culture
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evolution
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changes in allele frequencies in populations
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name the 4 forces of evolution
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mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, natural selection
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