Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.

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lactation

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The production of milk by a female mammal.

sweating

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The production of a fluid, sweat, by the sweat glands of the skin. The evaporation of the sweat from the skin leads to a cooling of the body.

The product of a theory derived from thermodynamics which demonstrates that order can arise spontaneously when systems are pushed far from an equilibrium state. The emergence of new structure arises ...

repressor protein

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The product of a regulatory gene that blocks the function of another gene.

natural selection

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The process whereby members of a species who have more surviving offspring than others pass their traits on to the next generation, whereas the less favored do not do so to the same degree.