By Clark Spencer Larsen
With an extraordinary paintings application, Our Origins is an available, up to date textual content that makes a speciality of anthropology's monstrous questions and the medical process.
A chief within the box and an skilled instructor, Clark Larsen focuses now not on encyclopedic info yet at the massive photo, getting scholars to work out and imagine like anthropologists. Larsen covers all of the significant facets of actual anthropology, together with genetics, primatology, and the fossil list. He additionally presents the most powerful assurance of bioarchaeology out there.
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The study of language, especially how language is structured, evolution of language, and the social and cultural contexts for language. Also called biological anthropology, physical anthropology is the study of human evolution and variation, both past and current. 2 ■ The Four Branches of Anthropology (a) Cultural anthropologists, who study living populations, often spend time living with cultural groups to gain more intimate perspectives on those cultures. The American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1978), one of the most recognizable names in cultural anthropology, studied the peoples of the Admiralty Islands, near Papua New Guinea.
This journey emphasizes humans’ discovery of the fascinating record of our diversity and of our evolution, a record that serves as a collective memory of our shared biological presence on Earth. From here to the end of the book, I will share with you all kinds of ideas that add up our current understanding of human beings as living organisms. Along the way, you will experience scientific breakthroughs such as the human genome project and forensics (you might even watch CSI and Bones in a whole new way).
Popular among linguistic anthropologists is a subfield called sociolinguistics, the investigation of language’s social contexts. Physical (or biological) anthropologists study all aspects of present and past human biology. As we will explore in the next section, physical anthropology deals with the evolution of and variation among human beings and their living and past relatives. No anthropologist is expected to be an expert in all four branches. Anthropologists in all four areas and with very different interests, however, acknowledge the diversity of humankind in all contexts.