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Chapter 1: Introduction-What is Biological Anthropology? Learning Objectives- After studying this chapter you should be able to do the following: 1. Define the various subdisciplines that comprise the field of biological anthropology, including paleoanthropology, skeletal biology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, primatology, and human biology. 2. Discuss the contributions of early naturalists to the study of biological anthropology. 3. Discuss the meaning of what it is to be human. 4. Discuss the place of human beings in nature. 5. Define the concept of culture and explain how it applies to anthropology. 6. Show how biological evolution created the capacity for culture. 7. Define ethnology and its relationship to cultural anthropology. 8. Demonstrate how ethnography, folklore, kinship, economic anthropology, medical anthropology, and ecological anthropology are related to the subfield of applied anthropology. 9. Define the subfield of archaeology and explain its relationship to anthropology. 10. Define the subfield of linguistic anthropology and explain its relationship to anthropology. 11. Review the various activities of biological anthropologists today. Key Terms- After studying this chapter you should be able to understand and identify the following terms: