anthropology


 * anthropology** Scientific study of human development and how different societies are interrelated. It is concerned with the chronological and geographical range of human societies. Modern anthropology stems from the first half of the 19th century. Public interest in cultural **evolution** followed the publication of //On the Origin of Species// by Charles Darwin (1859). //Physical anthropologists// are concerned with the history of human evolution in its biological sense. //Social anthropologists// study living societies in order to learn about cultural and social evolution. //Applied anthropology// is the specific study of a particular community and its collective and individual relationships.

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