Friday 16 September 2016
Sunday 4 September 2016
Last 25 years’ General Studies (Mains) Papers (1987 to 2011)
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This is the old pattern question papers of last 25 years GS Mains . This post is in the response of many requests from Aspirants for the old question papers useful for revision.
As i already said in preliminary exam the pattern of repeated previous year questions, this might happens in mains too. so try to do atleast past 5 years question papers..
Topper Notes: D.Rahul Venkat (Rank 386) Anthropology part-1 handwritten Notes
Anthropology Notes Part-1 (350 Pages, 31MB)
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CSE Anthropology Syllabus
Paper - I
1.1 Meaning, scope and development of Anthropology.
1.2 Relationships with other disciplines: Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Earth Sciences and Humanities.
1.3 Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance:
Social- cultural Anthropology.
Biological Anthropology.
Archaeological Anthropology.
Linguistic Anthropology.
1.4 Human Evolution and emergence of Man:
Biological and Cultural factors in human evolution.
Theories of Organic Evolution (Pre- Darwinian, Darwinian and Post-Darwinian).
Synthetic theory of evolution; Brief outline of terms and concepts of evolutionary biology (Doll’s rule, Cope’s rule, Gause’s rule, parallelism, convergence, adaptive radiation, and mosaic evolution).
1.5 Characteristics of Primates; Evolutionary Trend and Primate Taxonomy; Primate Adaptations; (Arboreal and Terrestrial) Primate Taxonomy; Primate Behaviour; Tertiary and Quaternary fossil primates; Living Major Primates; Comparative Anatomy of Man and Apes; Skeletal changes due to erect posture and its implications.
1.6 Phylogenetic status, characteristics and geographical distribution of the following:
Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Earth Sciences and Humanities.
Homo erectus: Africa (Paranthropus), Europe (Homo erectus heidelbergensis), Asia (Homo erectus javanicus, Homo erectus pekinensis).
Neanderthal Man- La-Chapelle-aux-saints (Classical type), Mt. Carmel (Progressive type).
Rhodesian man.
Homo sapiens — Cromagnon, Grimaldi and Chancelede.
1.7 The biological basis of life: The Cell, DNA structure and replication, Protein Synthesis, Gene, Mutation, Chromosomes, and Cell Division.
1.8
Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology. Chronology: Relative and Absolute Dating methods.
Cultural Evolution- Broad Outlines of Prehistoric cultures:
Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Copper-Bronze Age
Iron Age
2.1 The Nature of Culture: The concept and characteristics of culture and civilization; Ethnocentrism vis-à-vis cultural Relativism.
2.2 The Nature of Society: Concept of Society; Society and Culture; Social Institutions; Social groups; and Social stratification.
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