Title: The Writing Project: Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology and Evolution (ANTH100)
Headings: The Writing Project
The Writing Project
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology and Evolution (ANTH100)
Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology and Evolution
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Content: Cultural anthropologists study the culture, consisting of marriage and family systems, religious beliefs, social systems, worldview, and other behaviors. Cultural anthropologists will often spend a lot of time with the societies they are studying so that they can observe and collect first-hand data. Not only do they collect data through observation, they may talk to the members of society about their beliefs and behaviors, as well as taking measurements and studying artifacts to get an in-depth understanding. Culture is considered a part of human biology and important to understanding human behavior. Evolution and natural selection need culture to happen because only through culture can behaviors needed for survival be passed on to further generations. Information not stored in genes cannot be passed on without a culture available to inherit and imitate. Imitation is an important survival trait because it allows species to create an adaptation that may take much longer to create through genetic evolution. In Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Richerson & Boyd, 2010) it is said that: Culture affects the success and survival of individuals and groups;