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Ecology is the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment. The field was established in 1858 and further developed by the contributions of Darwin and Wallace. Julian Steward coined the term "cultural ecology" in 1955 to describe his methodology for examining the relationships between human groups, their environment, and how ecological factors influence aspects of culture like subsistence and technology. Steward also proposed the theory of "multilinear evolution" to explain that cultural change occurs through different processes in different areas, rather than universally or in one direction. He conducted studies applying these ideas to Native American groups and others.
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1. The document provides an overview of anthropology, outlining its definition, history, scope, and subfields.
2. Anthropology is defined as the study of humanity, including human origins, cultural and biological variations, and social groups. It aims to develop an integrated understanding of humankind.
3. The four main subfields of anthropology are discussed as physical/biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and socio-cultural anthropology. Each focuses on a different aspect of human life and society.
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Describe neo-evolution. What is it and what are its primary tenets?
Provide an example of a technology that is altering or may alter human evolution.
What are the potential benefits of this type of technology?
What are the potential drawbacks?
What are the moral and ethical implications of neo-evolution?
Should we continue to pursue this form of technology? Why or why not?
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oevolutionism , school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. It arose in the mid-20th century, and it addresses the relation between the long-term changes that are characteristic of human culture in general and the short-term, localized social and ecological adjustments that cause specific cultures to differ from one another as they adapt to their own unique environments. Further, neoevolutionists investigate the ways in which different cultures adapt to similar environments and examine the similarities and differences in the long-term historical trajectories of such groups. Because most neoevolutionists are interested in the environmental and technological adjustments of the groups they study, many are identified with the cultural ecological approach to ethnography, with the culture process approach to archaeology, and with the study of early and protohumans in biological anthropology.
Neoevolutionary anthropological thought emerged in the 1940s, in the work of the American anthropologists Leslie A. White and Julian H. Steward and others. White hypothesized that cultures became more advanced as they became more efficient at harnessing energy and that technology and social organization were both influential in instigating such efficiencies. Steward, inspired by classifying the native cultures of North and South America, focused on the parallel developments of unrelated groups in similar environments; he discussed evolutionary change in terms of what he called “levels of sociocultural integration†and “multilinear evolution,†terms he used to distinguish neoevolution from earlier, unilineal theories of cultural evolution.
In the years since White’s and Steward’s seminal work, neoevolutionary approaches have been variously accepted, challenged, rejected, and revised, and they continue to generate a lively controversy among those interested in long-term cultural and social change.
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The document provides an overview of the emergence of social science disciplines. It begins by listing key social science fields such as economics, anthropology, history, political science, geography, linguistics and sociology. It then presents a pre-test with multiple choice questions that assess understanding of the historical foundations of these disciplines. The answers identify disciplines such as anthropology as the study of human life and culture, geography as the study of physical features and human activity on earth, economics as initially the study of household resource allocation, history as the study of past events, and linguistics as the study of language. The document concludes by defining social science as a branch of science dealing with human behavior and its social and cultural aspects.
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