Introduction To Anthropology

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A general introduction to anthropology as the study of humanity using the lenses of the four subfields of sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Examines the broad evolution of humans and humanity, from general processes of biological change to comparisons with primates and interpretation of the fossil record to historical and sociocultural processes of cultural change and consideration of the variety of ways humans have organized themselves into societies. Offered in Fall semesters.