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anthropology

[an-thruh-pol-uh-jee] / ˌæn θrəˈpɒl ə dʒi /
NOUN
study of humans and their culture
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But our new findings, published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, challenge this long-held idea about human evolution.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

There also will be an exhibition by Annie Leibovitz at the National Museum of Anthropology.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

“The whole game is meaningless, crushing, exhausting,” said Xiang Biao, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

Anthropology requires a lot of field work and a lot of interviewing and I always felt awkward approaching total strangers.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2024

He then contacted Professor Rodney Young at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and asked him if the museum would undertake an excavation of the Gelidonya shipwreck.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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