Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.

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Twin studies

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Comparisons of monozygotic twins to dizygotic twins for the purpose of estimating the degree of environmental versus genetic influence operating on a specific trait.

Shared ancestral feature

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Compared with a shared derived feature, a homology that did not appear as recently and is therefore shared by a larger group of species.

Foraging

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Collecting wild plants and hunting wild animals for subsistence.

Classificatory term in linguistics, referring to a group of language families showing sufficient similarities to suggest that they are genetically related (e.g. The nostratic macrofamily is seen by ...

Storage-pit (also called cache-pits)

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Circular excavations usually less than 3 m in diameter assumed to have aboriginally functioned as storage "cellars".

Homologous chromosomes

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Chromosomes of the same pair containing the same genes but not necessarily the same alleles.

Postprocessual explanation

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Explanation formulated in reaction to the perceived limitations of functional-processual archaeology. It eschews generalisation in favour of an "individualizing" approach that is influenced by ...