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Cultural anthropology
Of or pertaining to the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a scientifically meaningful concept.
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Cultural anthropology
Selective attention
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Unconscious focusing on and response to stimuli that are perceived to be important, to the exclusion of other stimuli.
Diachronic studies
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Use of descriptive data from one society or population that has been studied at many points in time.
Folktales
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Traditional storeys found in a culture (generally transmitted orally) that may or may not be based on fact.
Transfer RNA (tRNA)
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Within the ribosome, a form of RNA that transports amino acids into the positions coded in the mrna.
Cognates
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Words so similar from one language to the next as to suggest that both are variants of a single ancestral prototype.
Sharecropping
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
Working land owned by others for a share of the yield.
Haemophilia A recessive
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
X-linked trait characterised by excessive bleeding due to faulty clotting mechanism.
