Talk:Biological anthropology
who identifies "cultural ecology" this way? All of the works I know of that use the term "cultural ecology" use it to refer to the work of Julian Steward and his students in the 1940s-1960s. (the research questions posited here seem very interesting, and also unsurprising either for physical anthropologists or cultural anthropologists. It is merely the appelation I question. What is described here sounds more like what I have heard called "human ecology.") SR
The entry for primatology which links here claims that it is closely related to physical anthopology. Here primatology is claimed as a sub-disipline. It would be good to keep this in mind as the articles progress. Two16
- Both are right, which is a comment on the scope of modern primatology. When primatology studies primates to discover how they are different from us, it's a subfield of anthropology. When primatology studies primates to discover how they are different from other "lower animals", it's a subfield of biology. This would go in the article but it may be hard to attribute.
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Its just a comment for editors to keep noted.
As these articles become worthy, we will need to bring them in line so that consistancy and clearness are maintained in a hyper linked enviroment. Right now the articles refer to each other and say different things. We will have to coordinate these two articles in the future and we might save ourselves a bit of work if we build with this in mind.
- yes, they need coordination, but they don't need to 'agree', as it doesn't cause any insurmountable problems if physical anthropologists and biologists both wish to claim primatology as their own subfield.
The wikipedians would say disambiguate. But that is still in the future when the process of improving the articles has gone on: people will know more; natural divisions may appear; elegant solutions discovered. Whatever the case we will be better able to deal with it . Even if we require a disambiguation page. As for consistancy and clarity minimum requirement is probably that we never say P is not equal to P.
When you say "physical anthropologists and biologists both wish to claim primatology", I think you are anthropomorphising arbitrary categories and making fun of multidiciplinary scientists. ;-]
I'm not naive enough to ask which one is right. ;-} Two16
- that wouldn't be very scientific - a scientist would ask what to test next. ;-)
Followers of Skinner gone bad might. ;-0
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142 it's bad form for me to leave a meassage for you on an encyclopia talk page: it suposed to be used for improving the article.
You need to stop linking to so many empty pages.Don't highlight everything Find out what the wiki naming conventions do a search to see if there is something similar. If work has already been done, you will have more time to write brilliant prose All that red is hard on the eyes and we will have to untangle it. The mark up language has a way with pipes | that is elegant to use in prose.
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"Renowned Paleoanthropologists"?
I have stumbled across this page while trying to find useful things about Blumenbach's kind of anthropology. I can understand that biological anthropology redirects to physical anthropology, but why is there a list of "Renowned Paleoanthropologists" on this page? Could someone explain please? --KF 11:04, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- The list serves mostly to provide links. Paleoanthropology is one branch of physical anthropology. All Wikipeida articles are works in progress -- hopefully, somebody will one day begin a list of notable primatologists, population geneticists, and others who occupy sub-fields of physical anthropology, Slrubenstein
- Thank you! --KF 23:28, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Now that there's a page for paleoanthropology and -ists, why keep *all* of them here? Were they all important to physical anthropology as a whole? --Joy [shallot] 20:06, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)