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Deals with fossilized remains, primate beginning and evolution.

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Physical Anthropology

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Rely more on smell for information

Have mobile ears, whiskers, longer snouts

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Prosimians

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3
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Rounded brain cases

Reduce non-mobile outer ears

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Anthropoids

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4
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Deals with the study of primaters

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Primatology

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5
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A theory that tells early human ancestors primarily lived on trees

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Arboreality

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6
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Gradual increase of the size of brain

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Encephalization

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General used by scientists to categorize the group of early humans and other humanlike creatures

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Hominid

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8
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Four categories of hominid

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Sahelanthropus
Ardipithecus
Australopithecus
Homo

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9
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Had biological and cultural characteristics of a modern human

Classified as humans

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Homo

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10
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Had biological and cultural characteristics of a modern human

Classified as humans

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Homo

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11
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Handy man

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Homo habilis

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12
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Upright man

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Homo erectus

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13
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Wise man

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Homo sapiens

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14
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Speech gene found in chromosome

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FOXP2

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15
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Was coined by social scientists to facilitate their exploration

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Society

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16
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All powerful

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Omnipotence

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17
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All knowing

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Omniscience

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18
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Three theoritical perspectives of society

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Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionalism

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Society is made possible by cooperation

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Structural Functionalism

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It sees society as an arena

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Conflict Theory

21
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It explores the issue of meaning-making

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Symbolic Interactionalism

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A complex whole which include knowledge

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Three perspectives in Culture

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Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism
Xenocentrism

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Refers to the tendency of each society to place its own cultural pattern

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Ethnocentrism

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The idea that all norms, beliefs and values are dependents on their cultural context
Cultural relativism
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Refers to preference of foreign
Xenocentrism
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Refers to the physical objects of culture
Material Culture
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Is anything that meaningfully represent something
Symbols
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Most important set of symbols
Language
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Is shared by the people in a society Are general, abstract ideas
Values
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Is an expectations of how people are supposed to act
Norms
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They tell you what to do
Prescriptive
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They tell you what not to do
Proscriptive
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Three types of norms
Folkways Mores Taboos
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Norms that have little strength and may within broad limits. Be easily broken e.g. manners of eating and dressing
Folkways
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Norms that are strongly held, considered essential
Mores
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Norms that are deeply held that even the thought of violating them upset people e.g. incest
Taboos
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A reward for people who exhibits expected or desire behavior
Positive Sanctions
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Applied by people with positions of formal authority
Formal sanction
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Form of punishment for violating important norms
Negative sanction
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Applied by common people
Informal sanction
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Consists of people's ideas about what is real and what is not
Beliefs
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Are what people considered as factual
Beliefs