Not exact matches
The psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Jung, and others who have laid the foundation
for modern psychiatry provide merely one approach to the understanding of
human behavior.
The South African archaeological record is so important because it shows some of the oldest evidence
for modern behavior in early
humans.
The new glimpse of the footpaths of animals and
humans complement earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and
behavior of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved
modern body proportions, it also increased its home range and began competing with carnivores
for carcasses on the savanna, says Harris.
The finding, reported here today at the annual meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, publisher of ScienceNOW, suggests to the researcher that
modern behaviors such as dolling up with jewelry may have originated from a need to communicate rather than a fundamental change in the
human brain.
The Upper Paleolithic, with its burgeoning numbers of grandparents, allowed
modern human behavior — the capacity
for which arose long beforehand — to finally find a firm foothold.
In the same way that inbreeding among
human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of
modern dog breeds has put purebred dogs at risk
for a large number of health problems, affecting both body and
behavior.
The various kinds of research undertaken by an anthropologist revolves around activities such as study of social, economic and
behavior of
human beings, understanding culture, customs, values, habits of
human beings, research earlier biological evidence
for better understanding of
modern day living etc..
In early -
modern social science theory, John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, and others, laid the foundation
for social psychology by asserting that
human social cognition and
behavior could, and should, be studied scientifically like any other natural science.