Name: 人類學入門｜大歷史計劃 (Intro to Anthropology | Big History Project)
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My name is Kathy Schick and I am an anthropologist.

Sometimes it's been called the holistic study of humankind,

It's trying to look at humans from all angles.

even long before I even knew there was such a field.

As a teenager in junior high school and then high school,

I became fascinated with looking around the world

but living in different cultures with different lifestyles,

I also became fascinated with us as a species,

that we were a very unusual species in the animal world.

We have this huge brain, we walked on two feet,

we had complex tools and technology, elaborate culture.

And I wondered how did this really happen?

And then my very first semester in college,

I found the field was called anthropology.

This was what I had been interested in for so long.

to a lot of places in the world over the years.

I actually met my husband on an archeological dig.

And then while we were in graduate school,

we went off to Africa right after we got married,

more or less spent our honeymoon in a tent.

In fact, the first two years of our marriage,

we figured we spent about half of it living in a tent

with all of our belongings in a little tin trunk

lived in many places of the world for months at a time

and had quite a wide range of experiences with people

like the African plains with our nearest neighbors being

Now, when anthropologists want to do their work,

their research, they often have to travel.

learning about the physical people there,

their bodies have adapted to high altitude,

Also, studying the languages and also studying

such as these, so that you will go out and excavate

And also, you'll find not only our direct ancestors

but also that there are other species out there who are

but had small brains and a different adaptation.

Now, if you think about it, it's only been about a 150 years

beginning to be found short time before that.

paleoanthropology, which tries to look at human evolution.

And usually this entails physical anthropologists,

archeologists, and a wide range of other people.

Paleontologists who might study carnivores or elephants,

geologists of different sorts living in big field camps

sometimes in remote places of Africa for instance,

so you... often doing a lot of travel and interfacing

with a lot of other scientists in this work.

in a sense, you've heard of probably missing links.

In a sense, all of these fossils that we found

But remember, for each missing link that we find,