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Deals with fossilized remains, primate beginning and evolution.
Physical Anthropology
Rely more on smell for information
Have mobile ears, whiskers, longer snouts
Prosimians
Rounded brain cases
Reduce non-mobile outer ears
Anthropoids
Deals with the study of primaters
Primatology
A theory that tells early human ancestors primarily lived on trees
Arboreality
Gradual increase of the size of brain
Encephalization
General used by scientists to categorize the group of early humans and other humanlike creatures
Hominid
Four categories of hominid
Sahelanthropus
Ardipithecus
Australopithecus
Homo
Had biological and cultural characteristics of a modern human
Classified as humans
Homo
Had biological and cultural characteristics of a modern human
Classified as humans
Homo
Handy man
Homo habilis
Upright man
Homo erectus
Wise man
Homo sapiens
Speech gene found in chromosome
FOXP2
Was coined by social scientists to facilitate their exploration
Society
All powerful
Omnipotence
All knowing
Omniscience
Three theoritical perspectives of society
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionalism
Society is made possible by cooperation
Structural Functionalism
It sees society as an arena
Conflict Theory
It explores the issue of meaning-making
Symbolic Interactionalism
A complex whole which include knowledge
Culture
Three perspectives in Culture
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism
Xenocentrism
Refers to the tendency of each society to place its own cultural pattern
Ethnocentrism