Anthropology - Definition, Evolution, and Investigative Branches

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Q1. Evolution Definition
According to Lamarck's evolution is the change over time of an organism as a result of
alterations inheritable physical or behavioral traits. Evolution can also be defined as the process
of continuous development change from common trunks which was said by Stephen Jay Gould.
This pattern which cannot be reversed and separated gives life its direction. Evolution is not
considered as the developmental change in living things as they grow (Fuentes, 2016).
Q2. Physical Anthropology Definition
Physical anthropology is the part that talks about the development of human beings,
adaptations to their environmental stresses and their variability. This is according to Alison
Galloway. Culture is the way of behavior of human beings like the beliefs, the institutions, the
material goods, the social structure and the language. Within this part of physical anthropology,
there are several areas of investigating evolution. They include
a. Paleoanthropology: This the branch of physical anthropology that talks about the hominids
and of primates’ evolution from the fossil documentations and from whatever can be established
via comparative anatomy alongside social structure together with behavior studies from the
people’s adjoining alive relatives (Scupin & DeCorse.2016).
b. Primatologist: this branch deals with the study of prosimians, monkeys and the apes.
c. Genetics: this is the study of inheritance and variation in individuals and actions of the genes
which are responsible for them.

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d. Growth and Development: The former is the change in the kids or parts of a kid’s size while
latter is the continuous acquisition of different skills and abilities including learning, speaking,
head support, feelings expression as well as and relationship with others.
Q3. Socio-Anthropological research project:
The inventor of this theory is Alan Benard. He argues that social anthropological has
much to contribute to our understanding of human evolution including changes in technology. It
has got significance in the evolution since it is showing how human evolved, changes and
development of language, human genetics and the study of primates. This has helped the
historians to expand their knowledge of the evolution of these aspects (Hardy et al., 2015).
Q4. Biological (or Physical) Anthropology
They tend to explain how human beings acclimatize to different surroundings and again
how cultural and biological processes are working collaboratively to shape the behavior, growth,
or development. It is true that they are more interested in origins of human, variation as well as
evolution. The anthropologist, biologist, and culturalism give principal attention to the
investigation alongside explanation of queries about evolutionary theory, plight of humans in
nature, people’s adaptation together with variation (Ivanovich, 2015). Those who studied
biological anthropology tends to learn more about other parts of the primates, fossil records, pre-
historical people and the biology like hormones, health, and growth.
Q5. Ways Anthropologist Investigate Evolution
The branches of biological anthropology include: