physical anthropology
noun
the branch of anthropology dealing with the evolutionary changes in human anatomy and physiology, using mensurational and descriptive techniques.
physical anthropologist
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a word derived from
physical anthropology.
Example Sentences
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After authorities could not conclusively identify one victim’s remains, they sent them in 1986 to Alan Mann, then a physical anthropologist at UPenn.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 1, 2021
Simon Neubauer, a physical anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, said the finding did support the idea that both brain size and brain organization are important to human evolution.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2018
"I, for one, never expected it," says Verano, a physical anthropologist who has worked in the region for more than three decades.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 26, 2018
Jeffrey Schwartz, a physical anthropologist a the University of Pittsburgh who wasn’t involved with the study, isn’t as convinced that human-like necessarily means human.
From The Verge ● Jan. 25, 2018
From today’s vantage, the attack seems to have begun, paradoxically, with the publication in 1986 of a landmark pro-Clovis paper in Current Anthropology by a linguist, a physical anthropologist, and a geneticist.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
