Meaning of physical anthropology | Babel Free

Definitions

The branch of anthropology that studies physical aspects of human beings and closely related species.

uncountable

Examples

“In the meantime I must briefly refer to the doubt that has often been raised about the utility of minute measurements, deep studies of physical anthropology, statistical tables, and elaborate maps,”

“By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.”

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