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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old stone age

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The earliest stone tool making traditions from the first ones made by Homo habilis down to the most advanced ones of the last Ice Age made by modern Homo sapiens. Paleolithic literally means "Old ...

Metatheria

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The infraclass of therian mammal species in which females bear their young in an immature condition (while still in the early fetal stage) and then permit their further infant development in an ...

color blindness

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The inability to see certain colors as they normally appear to others. The most common form of this vision deficiency is X-linked genetically inherited red-green color blindness.

survival of the fittest

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The idea that those individuals in a species that have characteristics selected for by nature are biologically the most fit. They are the ones who more frequently survive to be the parents of the ...

The idea that if two fossils look slightly different, they must be categorized as being from two different species. This approach emphasizes minor differences. People who maintain this approach are ...

populational viewpoint of classifying species from fossils

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The idea that if two fossils have major similarities they should be categorized as being members of the same species. From this perspective, minor anatomical differences within the same population ...

special creation

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The idea that all life forms were created by God as separate, distinct species. The implication is that they do not change through time and that there is no evolutionary relationship between ...