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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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protoculture
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The simplest or beginning aspects of culture as seen in some nonhuman primates.
intermediate expression
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The situation in which a heterozygous genotype is associated with a phenotype that is more or less intermediate between the phenotypes controlled by the two homozygous genotypes.
incomplete penetrance
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The situation in which an allele that is expected to be expressed is not always expressed.
sexual division of labor
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The situation in which males and females in a society perform different tasks. In hunting-gathering societies males usually hunt while females usually gather wild vegetable food.
diglossia
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The situation in which two forms of the same language are spoken by people in the same language community, depending on the social situation. Displacement (language) the ability ...
solifluction
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
The slow downslope movement of surface sediments in a saturated condition. Prevalent in permafrost areas due to the seasonal thawing of the surface of the permafrost zone. Can ...
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)