Anthropology › Section D · Evolution, primates, and early hominins › Topic D.1
What is biological anthropology?
Humans are animals with a long evolutionary history and a remarkable range of bodies. Biological anthropology studies that history and that range, and it has had to rebuild itself after an early era of scientific racism.
In this topic
- The biological side of a holistic discipline
- Six areas of study
- Bones as biographies
- A troubled history
- Human variation is not race
- Worked example: reading a skin colour cline
- Measuring where variation lies
- Worked example: apportioning variation
- Why the field matters now
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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