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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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And I think you’re going to have to have competitive models to actually get to reform where people who used to have inside history, which is my discipline, English literature, anthropology, sociology, whatever.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

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

Changes in the dominance hierarchy can fuel more aggression and tension, said Aaron Sandel, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and study co-author.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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

Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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