Physical anthropology

Physical anthropology

The branch of anthropology that studies the development of the human race in the context of other primate species.

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Great Rift Valley

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

Long depression in Southwest Asia and East Africa caused by the movement of tectonic plates, largely beginning during the Oligocene Epoch. In Africa, it extends from Ethiopia southwest 1200 miles ...

fetal position

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

Laying partly curled on one's side with the legs and arms bent and held into the body.

Lateral and/or vertical movement of segments of the earth's crust. The continents and the ocean floors consist of tectonic plates that are moving relative to each other. On average, such movements ...

inheritance of acquired characteristics

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

Lamarck's theory that evolution occurs as a result of an organism acquiring a change in form due to using or not using particular body parts during its lifetime and then passing the new trait on to ...

minerals

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

Inorganic, naturally occurring materials consisting of specific elements. They are usually rocks with a characteristic crystalline structure and other identifiable physical traits. Quartz, talc, and ...