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Biological Anthropology - Physical Anthropology; the study of humans as biological organisms, dealing with the emergence and evolution of humans and with contemporary biological variations among human populations; also known as Physical Anthropology.
Topics under Biological Anthropology
Paleoanthropology - study of early humans
Human Genetics - genetic study of humans
Anthropometry - study of human variation
Primatology - study of primate order
Human Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia (Cannot produce their own food)
Subkingdom: Metazoa (multicellular)
Phylum: Chordata (they have notochord)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (having backbone)
Super Class: Tetrapoda (Four-limbed)
Class: Mammalia (have mammary glands; endothermic (warm-blooded); live birth; having body hair)
Subclass: Eutheria (placenta-bearing mammals)
Cohort: Unguiculata (Eutherians with claws or nails)
Order: Primata (5 digits (hands & toes); prehensile; lower limbs different from upper limbs)
Suborder: Anthropoidea (human like)
Infraorder: Catarrhini: (dental formula 2-1-2-3)
Superfamily: Hominoidea (more human like than anthropods; includes apes, monkeys, us)
Family: Hominidae (apes and humans only)
Subfamily: Homininae (orangutan. chimpanzee and humans)
Tribe: Hominini (chimpanzee and humans only)
Subtribe: Hominina (humans only; called hominids)
Genus: Homo
Species: Sapiens
Subspecies: Sapiens
NOTES TO REMEMBER ON Biological Anthropology
-Primates have no hair on palms and fingertips
- Primates have clavicles
- Only female primates have two mammary glands
- Male primates have pendulous penis
- Dental formula of Prosimeans - 2-1-2-2
- Platyhines have flat noses; called New World Monkeys, and having prehensile tails as oppose to Catarrhini
- Only humans have a chin
- Only humans have an S-shaped spinal cord
- Foramen magnum - hole in skull
Humans (center)
Non-humans (backs)
- Only humans have culture
- Only humans have sagittal...