Anthropology

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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termite stick

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A tool made and used by chimpanzees for collecting termites for food.

microlith

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A tiny stone tool, characteristic of the mesolithic period, many of which were probably used as barbs.

harpoon

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A thrown or thrust spear-like weapon armed with a detachable point fastened to a retrieving line.

ischial callosity

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A thickening of the skin overlying a posterior section of the pelvis (ischial tuberosity); found in the old world monkeys and some apes.

mandibular torus

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A thickening of bone on the inside of the mandible.

neoteny hypothesis

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A theory of evolutionary change which holds that organisms in a group maintain younger characteristics of ancestral groups while becoming sexually mature during what was ...