Anthropology and Life sciences are closely related to each other through fields such as taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, embryology,palentology and genetics being very close to biological anthropology. The difference lies in the emphasis placed on Human biology by anthropologists.
Taxonomy is required to place humans in the correct position in the evolutionary family tree.
Paleo-Anthropology along with paleontology, soogeography and evolutionary biology have a common focus on emergence and changes to species, especially primates.
After 1930, with the advent of Genetics, the interactions between biology and biological anthropology increased further. Genetics helped in understanding the relation of humans with other home species and the differnece between different human groups.
Biological anthropology and anatomy are concerned with the physical human strucrure in itself and with relation to other primates.
Physiology, genetics, embryology and ecology are concerned with special aspects of bodily apparatus of humankind.
Anthropology and lifesciences use evolutionary, stuructural, systems and ecological approaches to deal wtih the biology of humans in relation to environment especially while examining adaptations and human beings. Likewise, both both depend on geologists, geochemists, chemists and physicists to dertermins the age of prehistoris specimen.
Scope-
While anthropology studies biology and learned behaviour(culture) of human beings; life sciences study biology and instinctual behaviour of organisms.
Also Life sciences is much older than anthropology and latter has adopted a lot of tools and systems from the former.
Subject matter-
Anthropologists use criteria developed by zoologists and botanists to classify human beings and primates.
Athropology heavily depends upon Genetics wrt the study of human evolution and human variation.
Anthropologists use data from botany and zoology to reconstruct the environment of prehistoric populations.
Life sciences use criteria developed by themselves to classify animals and humans. Fields like embryology, taphonomy and palynology provide an idea about true age of humankind and its relation with other species.
Life scientists use data provided by anthropologists to study plant and animal ecology besides human ecology.
Methodology-
Anthropologists do the studies in natural settings of a community.
There is a heavy dependency on participative observation for gathering data.
there is lesser scope for validity and reliability of data.
Life sciences bring the specimen back to laboratory to study them.
The dependency is on observation for gathering data.
Greater scope for validity and reliability of data.
Taxonomy is required to place humans in the correct position in the evolutionary family tree.
Paleo-Anthropology along with paleontology, soogeography and evolutionary biology have a common focus on emergence and changes to species, especially primates.
After 1930, with the advent of Genetics, the interactions between biology and biological anthropology increased further. Genetics helped in understanding the relation of humans with other home species and the differnece between different human groups.
Biological anthropology and anatomy are concerned with the physical human strucrure in itself and with relation to other primates.
Physiology, genetics, embryology and ecology are concerned with special aspects of bodily apparatus of humankind.
Anthropology and lifesciences use evolutionary, stuructural, systems and ecological approaches to deal wtih the biology of humans in relation to environment especially while examining adaptations and human beings. Likewise, both both depend on geologists, geochemists, chemists and physicists to dertermins the age of prehistoris specimen.
Scope-
While anthropology studies biology and learned behaviour(culture) of human beings; life sciences study biology and instinctual behaviour of organisms.
Also Life sciences is much older than anthropology and latter has adopted a lot of tools and systems from the former.
Subject matter-
Anthropologists use criteria developed by zoologists and botanists to classify human beings and primates.
Athropology heavily depends upon Genetics wrt the study of human evolution and human variation.
Anthropologists use data from botany and zoology to reconstruct the environment of prehistoric populations.
Life sciences use criteria developed by themselves to classify animals and humans. Fields like embryology, taphonomy and palynology provide an idea about true age of humankind and its relation with other species.
Life scientists use data provided by anthropologists to study plant and animal ecology besides human ecology.
Methodology-
Anthropologists do the studies in natural settings of a community.
There is a heavy dependency on participative observation for gathering data.
there is lesser scope for validity and reliability of data.
Life sciences bring the specimen back to laboratory to study them.
The dependency is on observation for gathering data.
Greater scope for validity and reliability of data.
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