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Anthropology
The study of human beings and human ancestors through time. Focuses on relation to physical characteristics, environmental effects, social relations and culture. The science of humans.
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cognates
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Words so similar from one language to the next as to suggest that both are variants of a single ancestral prototype.
sharecropping
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Working land owned by others for a share of the yield.
hemophilia A recessive
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
X-linked trait characterized by excessive bleeding due to faulty clotting mechanism.
horizontal circle
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
With major surveying instruments, the graduated horizontal table around which the sighting telescope revolves; used to measure the horizontal angle.
level notes
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Written observations on all significant characteristics of an excavated level.
cognitive processes
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Cognitive processes are ways of perceiving and ordering the world.
diffusion
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
When elements of one culture spread to another without wholesale dislocation or migration.
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)