anthropological

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And even as I try to dress it up here with some kind of detached, anthropological pseudo-intellectual claptrap, I’m still jumping straight into the muddy pigpile that’s been going on for weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

For decades, scientists studying human evolution have relied on fossil evidence and anthropological fieldwork to draw conclusions about mating behavior.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026

He now works at the Ministry of Public Health as an anthropological doctor, blending medical research with studying human behaviour.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

The paper - titled 'Beachy Head Woman: clarifying her origins using a multiproxy anthropological and biomolecular approach' - was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

“But I still stand by my opinion that a book of interviews... ordinarily wouldn’t work. It’s not fiction, but it’s not nonfiction either. Perhaps it’s anthropological but that’s a ghastly category to be in.”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett