ANTHRO 1000 study guide

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Describe the history of our understanding of our place in nature.

What are the 4 fields of Anthropology and what do they encompass?

What are some jobs available to anthropologists?

What is the scientific method and why is it important?

Who was Linnaeus? What are homologies? What is evolution? How did mammals evolve?

What is the history of our understanding of evolution?

What is heredity? DNA? How are proteins and tissues formed?

How do humans differ from other animals?

What are primates? How do they differ from other animals? How are modern primates related? When did the groups evolve?

How are archaeology and paleontology hard sciences? How do they differ from other hard sciences?

What is a hominid? an ape?

What were the earliest hominids?

What were the first hominids outside of Africa?

What were the genera Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo like? When did they live?

Who were the first tool-users?

Name each of the movies that we watched and identify the main themes.