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| The processes by which organisms cope with environmental forces and stresses, such as those posed by climate and topography or terrains |
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| The study of the human species and its immediate ancestors |
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| The application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems |
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| Archaeological Anthropology |
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| Reconstructs, describes, and interprets human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains |
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| The inclusion and combination of both biological and cultural perspectives and approaches to comment on or solve a particular issue or problem |
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| Biological (or Physical) Anthropology |
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| Human biological diversity in time and space |
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| The study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences |
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| Cultural Resource Management (CRM) |
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| Preserving sites and also allowing their destruction if they are not significant |
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| Traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that form and guide the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them |
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| An account of a particular community, society, or culture. |
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| Examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of ethnography |
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| The cultivation of plants and domestication of animals |
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| The academic discipline of anthropology |
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| The study of the whole human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture |
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| Studies language in its social and cultural context, across space and over time |
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| The process by which the forms most fit to survive and reproduce in a given environment do so in greater numbers than others of the same population do |
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| An organism's evident traits |
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| Our closest biological relatives (apes and monkeys) |
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| The attempt to assign humans to discrete categories based on purportedly common ancestry |
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| A "systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims, through experiment, observation, and deduction, to produce reliable explanations of phenomena, with references to the material and physical world" |
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| Investigates relationships between social and linguistic variation |
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| A belt 23 degrees north and south of the equator |
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| A biological adaptation, occurs over generations |
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| Long-term physiological adaptation |
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| A biological adaptation, occurs during growth and development of the individual organism |
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| Short-term physiological adaptation |
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| A biological adaptation, occurs spontaneously when the individual organism enters a new environment |
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