Biological Anthropology
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Biological Anthropology
Biological anthropology is a field in the anthropology that studies on human origin and evolution. The technology studied here is fossil analysis, as well as genetics and morphology. Biological anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that examines the biological aspect of humans in the view of comparative and ecology or even an evolutionary point of view. Biological anthropology, as stated by Clark et al. (2017), is very cohesive, applying the evolutionary perspectives and comprise some anthropological topics such as human biology, evolution medicine, spirituality, and human behavioral ecology.
It also comprises the evolution of elongated animals and primitive zoology. In humans, biological anthropology studies human beings with a focus on the interaction between human biology and their culture. It specializes in the human biological variations as well as their adaptations in connection to primate zoology, their growth and development, orthopedics, paleontology, and many more. Dufour & Piperata (2018) stated that there are four branches of anthropology, namely Biological anthropology, linguistically anthropology, cultural, and archeology anthropology. The research on every field focuses on the different research fields, and they also use different research methods. The methods applied in their research are ranging from the common methods in social sciences as well as a human science and biological methods.
In conclusion, biological anthropology, together with physical anthropology, are similar to anthropological studies and the chemistry studies which focus on the human biology of the human beings and the non-human primates (Martin, 2019). The subject examines the biological factors and the physical factors influencing human evolution as well as of the other primates. That comprises the factors that influence the creation and maintenance of modern genetics and physiological variability.
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Clark, A., King, C. L., Buckley, H. R., Collins, C. J., Dhavale, N., Elliott, G. E., … & McDonald, K. S. (2017). Biological anthropology in the Indo-Pacific region: new approaches to age-old questions. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 41, 78-94. https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2486785/component/file_2486784/content
Dufour, D. L., & Piperata, B. A. (2018). Reflections on nutrition in biological anthropology. American journal of physical anthropology, 165(4), 855-864. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara_Piperata/publication/324054974_Reflections_on_nutrition_in_biological_anthropology/links/5abb0554aca2722b0b7bd60d/Reflections-on-nutrition-in-biological-anthropology.pdf
Martin, M. A. (2019). Biological anthropology in 2018: Grounded in theory, questioning contexts, embracing innovation. American Anthropologist, 121(2), 417-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13233