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| Adaptation | (3) The process by which organisms cope with environmental stresses. |
| Anthropology | (2) The study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. |
| Applied Anthropology | (12) The application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems. |
| Archaeological Anthropology | (7) The branch of anthropology that reconstructs, describes, and interprets human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains; best known for the study of prehistory. Also known as "archaeology." |
| Biocultural | (5) Referring to the inclusion and combination (to solve a common problem) of both biological and cultural approaches—one of anthropology's hallmarks. |
| Biological (or physical) Anthropology | (10) The branch of anthropology that studies human biological diversity in time and space—for instance, hominid evolution, human genetics, human biological adaptation; also includes primatology (behavior and evolution of monkeys and apes). Also called physical anthropology. |
| Cultural Anthropology | (7) The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. |
| Cultural Resource Management | (CRM) (15) The branch of applied archaeology aimed at preserving sites threatened by dams, highways, and other projects. |
| Cultures | (2) Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human; transmitted through learning. |
| Ethnography | (7) Field work in a particular culture. |
| Ethnology | (7) The theoretical, comparative study of society and culture; compares cultures in time and space. |
| Food Production | (4) Plant cultivation and animal domestication. |
| General Anthropology | (4) The field of anthropology as a whole, consisting of cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology. |
| Holistic | (2) Interested in the whole of the human condition past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture. |
| Linguistic Anthropology | (11) The branch of anthropology that studies linguistic variation in time and space, including interrelations between language and culture; includes historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. |
| Science | (11) A systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims, through experiment, observation, and deduction, to produce reliable explanations of phenomena, with reference to the material and physical world. |
| Society | (2) Organized life in groups; typical of human and other animals |
| Sociolinguistics | (11) Study of relationships between social and linguistic variation; study of language in its social context. |
| (EXTRA) Natural Selection | (EXTRA) Originally formulated by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace; the process by which nature selects the forms most fit to survive and reproduce in a given environment, such as the tropics. |
| (EXTRA) Phenotype | (EXTRA) An organism's evident traits, its "manifest biology"—anatomy and physiology. |
| (EXTRA) Racial Classification | (EXTRA) The attempt to assign humans to discrete categories (purportedly) based on common ancestry. |
| (EXTRA) Tropics | (EXTRA) Geographic belt extending about 23 degrees north and south of the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer (north) and the Tropic of Capricorn (south). |
