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  • This more restricted use of the term hominid is common in anthropology ... Nonetheless, because of tradition in anthropology, whereby hominid ...
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  • Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical discipline that inquires ... One way to understand the crossroads by which philosophical anthropology ...
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  • in the development of modern American anthropology. The first student of ... meeting with Franz Boas, professor of anthropology at Columbia, Kroeber decided ...
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  • racial segregation, arguing that any biological basis for racial differences ... ===Cultural and biological anthropology=== His interactionist stance ...
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  • However, also common, particularly in anthropology, is to see hominids refer ... on hominid phylogeny.] Annual Review of Anthropology 3: 203–228. ...
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  • as the father of modern social anthropology. Radcliffe-Brown was particularly ... of Rivers, he changed his major to anthropology. Another influence at ...
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  • Category:Anthropology [[Image:The speaking portrait.jpg|thumb|right ... Human Species: An Introduction to Biological Anthropology. Westview Press ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle ... is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology. In social ...
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  • Category:Anthropology [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg ... Anthropology (from the Greek word ἄνθρωπος, "human" ...
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  • all the properties of a given system (biological, chemical, social, economic ... Organicism is also a biological doctrine that stresses the organization ...
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  • on account of his contributions to anthropology. of his career was mostly spent studying anthropology and sociology, the second ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Cultural Anthropology (known as Social Anthropology in Great Britain ...
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  • 1942) was one of the pioneers of modern anthropology and is often called the ... on Baffin Island, and drew him towards anthropology. While at the Royal ...
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  • Paleoanthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology and paleontology ... to prehistoric time periods, with "anthropology," itself a combination ...
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  • Category:Anthropology [[Image:Phrenology1.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right ... of evolutionism, criminology, and anthropology (as pursued by Cesare ...
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  • as a permanent home for the many biological and anthropological specimens ... interest in not only the cultural and biological diversity of the entire ...
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  • in America, an important popularizer of anthropology, and one of the most prominent ... Boas, Columbia's professor of anthropology. His graduate teaching ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage ... Many reasons underlie the incest taboo: Biological explanations of ...
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  • time these mistakes were corrected in anthropology, the idea that a matriarchy ... percent of children living with their biological married parents experience ...
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  • in India have cast overwhelming doubt for a biological Dravidian ... L. Ciochon, Introduction to Physical Anthropology. Wadsworth Publishing ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... emphasis on psychological rather than biological causes. ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria ... to the detriment of the children's biological father. Most societies ...
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  • graduate studies in sociology and anthropology at the newly-founded department ... sociology and, to a lesser extent, anthropology at the University of Chicago ...
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  • between the races exist, be they biological, social, psychological ... both objects of public curiosity and of anthropology and anthropometry.Pascal ...
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  • in many modern societies one's biological gender no longer determines ... The flux in gender roles in modern societies plays against the biological ...
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  • Distress was thought to arise from biological or physiological causes ... an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution ...
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  • Both anthropology and sociology have made detailed studies on the ... selfish and uncaring society. Just as biological features, talents, or even ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology [[Image:Degas- La classe de ... evolution. They also started to use biological evolution to explain differences ...
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  • different types of evidence, such as: biological evidence, trace evidence ... *Forensic anthropology: It involves the use of physical anthropology ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Glieseupdated.jpg ... supernatural powers. The notion of alien biological lifeforms as they are thought ...
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  • or Parental Manipulation?" Current Anthropology 35:5 (Dec. 1994): 595-624. ... are able-bodied girls with living biological parents. Many abandoned ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... The two words also refer to the biological phenomenon of outbreeding ...
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  • is how anything (digital, mechanical or biological) processes information ... cognitive psychology; philosophy; anthropology and even architecture. ...
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  • field drawing together scholars from anthropology, botany, archaeology, ... Ethnomedicine is a sub-field of medical anthropology that deals with ...
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  • handle death. Likewise, cultural anthropology and archaeology concern ... fields of study in thanatology. The biological study of death helps explain ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[File:Hombre Shuar.jpg ... women's labor was crucial to Shuar biological and social life. ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle ... The network of relatives (including biological, adopted, and foster) that ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Lebensraum (German for "habitat" or ... Lebensraum, was a distinct "biological necessity." As he ...
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  • the distribution of power in society, biological and gender differences ... #039;s father earned the first Ph.D. in anthropology in the United States from ...
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  • are included within social sciences, anthropology, economics, linguistics ... which analyze society and culture; from anthropology to linguistics to media ...
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  • as the importance of genetic or biological factors, the role of various ... with no important contribution by biological factors, and that all learning ...
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  • ethics, moral theory, metaphysics, and anthropology. Powerful new technology ... Humanity has developed ways of interfering with the natural biological ...
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  • in contrast to more traditional biological taxonomy with its focus ... Although the emphasis of cladistics on biological lineage through ...
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  • evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept. ... theory of genetics as the basis for biological inheritance, and mathematical ...
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  • in 27 academic areas, including: Anthropology, Art, Behavioral Science ... * Craig Stanford - Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences ...
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  • that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny ... leading figures of Eugenics and racial anthropology in Germany around the ...
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  • Category:Anthropology [[File:Sna large.png|right|300px|thumb|A social ... Generally speaking, kinship differs from biological relation, as it also involves ...
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  • In 1996 Yemen ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ... with the guidelines of the Convention on Biological Diversity, would ensure ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... social and spiritual purposes, not only biological. To communitarians, it ...
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  • 20157 Flaked Stones and Old Bones: Biological and Cultural Evolution ... finely.William A. Haviland, Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge ...
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  • [[Image:Biological classification L Pengo.svg|thumb|right|Scientific ... quot; ([1952] 1962) in An appraisal of anthropology today. Edited by Sol Tax ...
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  • the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute) to anthropology, to small group dynamics ... In Parsons' theory, societal evolution parallels biological evolution ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Jade pot from the ... is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology. Archaeology studies human ...
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  • Category:Anthropology [[File:Durham 2534.jpg|thumb|325px|Men of the ... Generally speaking, kinship differs from biological relation, as it also involves ...
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  • 1964 to 1965, and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge ... systems and their safeguards, whether biological (Jurassic Park), military/organizational ...
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  • receive their social heritage from their biological parents. The family, therefore ... term, committed involvement of their biological parents with one another ...
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  • notion of a "born criminal" through biological determinism: criminals have particular physiognomic attributes or deformities. Physiognomy ...
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  • such subjects as mammalogy, geology, anthropology, entomology, herpetology ... * [http://www.amnh.org/our-research/anthropology Anthropology Division ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Submitted [[Image:Mexico.Mex.Teotihuacan ... bomb, along with chemical weapons and biological weapons, have actually ...
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  • from the Geological Society of America; Anthropology in Media Award from the ... A strong critic of all aspects of biological determinism, Gould opposed ...
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  • do best when raised by their two married biological parents." ... * Children from biological two-parent families have higher test scores ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Curtis, Edward S. {{Infobox Person ... Clinton Hart Merriam, head of the U. S. Biological Survey and one of the early ...
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  • Broadly defined, biological evolution is any heritable change in a ... (1986) in Evolutionary Biology: "Biological evolution…is change in ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle ... is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology. In social ...
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  • Ancient Mediterranean Studies Studies, Anthropology, Art Studio, Biological ... Graduate Program in the Biological Sciences. The School of ...
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  • balance of elements in areas of intense biological activity and areas of slight ... with the development of other biological disciplines. There is no ...
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  • ethnobotanists also receive training in anthropology, sociology, history, religion ... to the understanding of fundamental biological processes. ...
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  • ways, from activities that satisfy biological needs to sustain physical ... to how to precisely define behavior in a biological context, one common interpretation ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Psychology Category:Lifestyle ... edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/1961to1999/1998-biological-perspective.html Bisexuality: ...
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  • animals, plants and the remainder of biological life; and phenomena and ... to distinguish from studies of anthropology or ethnology; there is ...
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  • DNA technology is used in forensics, anthropology, and many other areas as well. DNA and the biological processes centered on its activities (translation ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal Poltergeists, their name ... media attention to try and locate her biological mother and father. She ...
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  • Category:Anthropology The history of agriculture is the story of humankind ... in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology (Caves Books ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal [[Image:John William Waterhouse ... to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion ...
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  • Category:Anthropology A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage ... to society. Others have suggested that biological processes may be at work. ...
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  • if so in what form; is consciousness a biological function, is it purely ... to the question of whether there is a biological basis to consciousness. ...
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  • empirical field common to spiritual and biological facts." He later worked ... psyche through exploring the worlds of anthropology, astrology, alchemy, dreams ...
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  • In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Humans are classified in the biological order Primates, a group of ...
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  • each year, with particular strengths in anthropology, Asian studies, classics ... in Ithaca, New York performs research on biological diversity, primarily in ...
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  • not only culturally, but also in their biological capacities to utilize culture ... for his books on archaeology, social anthropology, and biology. The Punch ...
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  • desire from need and demand. Need is a biological instinct that is articulated ... investigation in literature, cultural anthropology, history, ... ...
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  • Human evolution is that part of biological evolution concerning the ... disciplines, most notably physical anthropology, linguistics, and genetics. ...
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  • of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police ... have published books, including his only biological son, Mark Vonnegut, who ...
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  • * Biomechanics is the study of the structure and function of biological ... * Biostatistics is the application of statistics to biological fields ...
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  • degrees in 52 majors and 14 minors in the biological, physical, and social sciences, as well as in the humanities and interdisciplinary areas. A major ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... would liberate mothers from their "biological tragedy." Instead ...
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  • From a biological point of view, Australasia is a distinct region with a common evolutionary history and a great many unique plants and animals ...
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  • material from psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, economics, sociology ... in the study of sexuality and the biological basis of the emotions to ...
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  • The ethical, moral, philosophical, biological, and legal issues are complex ... her husband; or a pregnant woman, the biological father. In a 2003 Gallup ...
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  • life experiences; feminist politics in anthropology and sociology, economics ... drawn by previous feminisms between (biological) sex and socially constructed ...
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  • to all humans, and it emphasizes the biological basis for the human capacity ... as in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Functionalist theories ...
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  • complex systems in the physical, biological, economic, and political ... Arts and Culture and Laboratory of Anthropology] – exhibits Native American ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming ... *Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural ...
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  • Category:Anthropology [[Image:Camuccini Lamentation over the Corpse ... Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death ...
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  • as much less common in the cultural and biological evolution of humans. Here ... in archaeology and spreading to anthropology, reached its height in ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle ... has sought to demonstrate an innate biological and even a genetic basis ...
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  • war crimes committed by Unit 731 (the biological and chemical warfare unit ... that "physicians and medical and biological researchers took a central ...
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  • Anthropology, with the savanna hypothesis proposed by Gordon Orians ... of great art as an embodiment of biological principles of the brain ...
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  • Arts colleges, such as Literature, Anthropology, Business, Economics, ... Louis J. Calder Center Biological Field Station] *[http://www.fordham ...
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  • called "myths" in the anthropology of religion. The term ... mathematical, medical, astronomical, and biological knowledge of the ancient ...
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