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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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The research was led by Ariane Burke, a professor of anthropology at Université de Montréal and head of the Hominin Dispersals Research Group in Quebec.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 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

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

"Every person alive today carries radioactive isotopes from atmospheric testing in their bones," report co-author and University of South Carolina anthropology professor Magdalena Stawkowski told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

While he had not yet attended Harvard Medical School, it seemed to Ophelia that Farmer already seemed to know a lot about medicine and especially anthropology.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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