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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freehold

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Private ownership of property.

Pre-Wisconsinan

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Prior to the Wisconsinan glacial period or older than about 70,000 b. P.

hegemony

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Preponderant influence or authority of one individual or social group over another.

selective pressure

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Pressure placed by a selective agent upon certain individuals within the population that results in the change of allele frequencies in the next generation.

punctuated equilibria

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Principal feature of the evolutionary theory propounded by Niles Eldredge and Stephen j. Gould, in which species change is represented as a form of darwinian gradualism ...