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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Marina Butovskaya, a physical anthropologist from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, is stunned at how quickly woodland is being cleared for farming at the edges of Hadza land.
From Science Magazine ● May 17, 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
Recently, Douglas Owsley, a Smithsonian physical anthropologist who has been studying the Chesapeake region’s early colonists, asked Harvard geneticist David Reich to examine the DNA of the Calverts and the anonymous baby.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2016
A physical anthropologist by training, Gurche never thought he'd end up working in an artist’s studio.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 14, 2015
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
