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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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bifurcation
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A basis of kin classification that distinguishes the mother's side of the family from the father's side.
altruistic act
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A behavior characterized by self-sacrifice that benefits others.
presenting
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A behavior in which a subordinate primate shows his or her anal region to a dominant animal.
mounting
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A behavioral pattern whereby one animal jumps on the posterior area of a second animal as a part of the act of copulation or as a dominance display.
simian shelf
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A bony buttress on the inner surface of the foremost part of the ape mandible, functioning to reinforce the mandible.
Manichean
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A believer in religious or philosophical dualism, from a religious dualism originating in Persia in the third century a. D. And teaching the release of the spirit from matter ...
surveying
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
(1) in archaeology, the process of locating archaeological sites. (2) more generally, the process of mapping and measuring points on the ground surface (e.g."legal" or topographic ...
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)