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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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patrilineage
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A lineage whose members brace their genealogies through specified male links to a common male ancestor.
matrilineage
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A lineage whose members trace their genealogies through specified female links to a common female ancestor.
great English vowel shift
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A linguistic change during the middle English period, when speakers of English began to alter the sounds of vowels, eventually changing all vowel sounds in the language.
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- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
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- Physical anthropology (13414)