Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Understanding Recent Apes as Parallel Models in Paleoanthropology: An Epistemological Approach
AU  - Brochhausen M
Y1  - 2002
VL  - 40
IS  - 2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 115
EP  - 118
KW  - Paleoanthropology
KW  - Scientific methods
KW  - Behavioural models
KW  - Epistemology
N2  - 
N2  - The use of models gained in research concerning primate behaviour or human sociobiology is common in the creation of environmental concepts in paleoanthropology. This usage, however, produces the risk of anthropomorphistic interpretation of ecological and sociobiological situations regarding the human ancestry. To reject those models is often not possible. One has to ensure that these models are indicated and their metaphorical nature is respected. This does not mean that paleoanthropology is not an exact science, as theory is underdetermined in every science as well as, for example, in physics.
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