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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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Jiang served as principal investigator, working with colleagues from USF's Genomics, Global Health Infectious Disease Research Center and departments including anthropology, molecular medicine and history.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

Martha Lincoln, a medical anthropology associate professor at San Francisco State, is among those who are opposed to AI.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Instead he adopts St. Augustine’s anthropology and depicts the new seekers of the City of Man usurping the old believers in the City of God.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Aylin Woodward is the reporter covering anthropology, space, climate change and other areas of science for The Wall Street Journal’s National Affairs team in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

We have now seen that the combined evidence of archaeology, physical anthropology, and genetics supports this view.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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