Evolutionary anthropology
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Evolutionary anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of the
. Various fields and disciplines of evolutionary anthropology include:- anthropogeny
- paleoanthropology and paleontology of both human and non-human primates
- primatology and primate ethology
- the sociocultural evolution of human behavior, including phylogenetic approaches to historical linguistics
- the cultural anthropology and sociology of humans
- the archaeological study of human technologyand of its changes over time and space
- human evolutionary genetics and changes in the human genome over time
- the neuroscience, endocrinology, and neuroanthropology of human and primate cognition, culture, actions and abilities
- human behavioural ecologyand the interaction between humans and the environment
- studies of human anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and differences and changes between species, variation between human groups, and relationships to cultural factors
Evolutionary anthropology studies both the
human experience
, past and present.
Studies of human biological evolution generally focus on the evolution of the human form. Cultural evolution involves the study of cultural change over time and space and frequently incorporates
cultural-transmission models. Cultural evolution is not the same as biological evolution: human culture involves the transmission of cultural information (compare memetics), and such transmission can behave in ways quite distinct from human biology and genetics. The study of cultural change increasingly takes place through cladistics
and genetic models.
See also
- Anthropology – Scientific study of humans, human behavior, and societies
- Dual inheritance theory – Theory of human behavior
- Evolutionary neuroscience – Study of the evolution of nervous systems
- Evolutionary psychology – Branch of psychology
- Homininae – Subfamily of mammals
- Philosophy of biology – Subfield of philosophy of science
- Sociobiology – Subdiscipline of biology regarding social behavior
References
- PMID 25684561.