Search results for "Biological anthropology" - New World Encyclopedia

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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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