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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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Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A major division of a class, consisting of closely related families.
stadia rod (also surveyor's staff')
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A long brightly painted rod, accurately calibrated in metric units (or feet and inches), used for obtaining elevations and stadia measurements of distance in mapping with a major ...
protein
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A long chain of amino acids joined together by peptide bonds (a polypeptide chain).
Old World semibrachiation
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A locomotor pattern involving extensive use of the hands in leaping; seen in basically quadrupedal animals.
New World semibrachiation
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A locomotor pattern involving extensive use of the hands and prehensile tail to suspend and propel the body; seen in species otherwise quadrupedal.
home base
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A location to which males and females return in human societies.
secondary datum
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A local base measuring point at a known distance from the main horizontal or vertical datum points.
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)