literature
Introductions
Look Anthropology
Primary at the questions that were sent on the email
Concept
An evolutionary anthropologist asks questions about what happens
We dont just come up with possible answers to the questions but we come up with a
body of a theory
We need to have the ability to find our own examples for the concepts that were
mentioned
Scientific disinterest- need to be detached from the experiment and the results so that you
report unbiased information in your results
Want the questions to be interesting and important in order to be engaged
Go onto web of science and find an example of primary scientific research
Web of science is a database of articles that is run by isi that index articles that are
published in scientific journals
Journals are indexed
Peer review review of an article by someone that is in same the field of science as the
author
The reviewers in most cases are anonymous and they make sure that the article is on topic
for the journal and make suggestions as to what should be added and removed all in order
to make the article better
The more important the journal is, they want shorter articles and publish often
What do journals look for in an article in order to index it?
The citations
Can be a good of bad thing if article is cited a lot, it could be b/c it is very wrong
The value of the work can be determined by how much they have published and how
often they are cited
Primary scientific literature does it contain data? If the literature contains data then it is
primary
Every study starts with an observation, the PSL will have an observation with data
A key point to understand the article is to understand the data