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Culture The sum total of learned traditions, values and beliefs that groups of people (and a

few species of highly-intelligent animals) possess




Biocultural anthropology The study of the interaction between biology and culture, which

plays a role in most human traits




Cultural anthropology The study of human societies in a cross-cultural context; the

subdivision that includes ethnology, archaeology, and linguistics (all aspects of human behavior)




Ethnology The study of human societies, their traditions, rituals, beliefs, and the

differences between societies in these traits




Ethnography The practice of cultural anthropology; Studying the minute to minute

workings of human societies; especially non-Western




Linguistic anthropology The comparative study of language, its origins, and use in

culture; also called anthropological linguistics; acquisition in infancy and childhood

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Archaeology The study of the material culture of past peoples




Artifacts The objects, from tools to art, left by earlier generations of people




Material culture The objects or artifacts of past human societies




Paleoanthropology The study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their primate

kin




Osteology The study of the skeleton




Paleopathology The study of diseases in ancestral human populations




Bioarchaeology The study of human remains in an archaeological context




Forensic anthropology The study of human remains applied to legal context

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Primatology The study of the nonhuman primates and their anatomy, genetics, behavior,

and ecology




Human biology Human growth and development, adaptation to environment extremes and

human genetics




Physical anthropology The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an

evolutionary framework




Observation Gathering of scientific information by watching a phenomenon




Deduction A conclusion that follows logically from a set of observations




Hypothesis A preliminary explanation of a phenomenon; Formation is the first step of the

scientific method




Experimentation Testing a hypothesis

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Data Scientific evidence produced by an experiment or by observation, from which

scientific conclusions are made




Scientific method Standard scientific research procedure in which a hypothesis is stated,

data are collected to test it, and the hypothesis is either supported or refuted




Falsifiable Able to be shown to be false




Paradigm A conceptual framework useful for understanding a body of evidence




Immutability Stasis; lack of change




Polygenism Ancient belief that all people are derived from multiple creations




Monogenism Ancient belief that people are derived from single creation

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