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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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Scarce resources
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A central concept of western economics which assumes that people have more wants than they have resources to satisfy them.
Open
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A characteristic of language that refers to the expansionary nature of language, which enables people to coin new labels for new concepts and objects.
Metacentric chromosome
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A chromosome in which the centromere appears roughly in the centre and the two arms are roughly the same length.
Mould
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A cavity left in firm sediment by the decayed body of an organism.
Prokaryote
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A cell, more primitive than a eukaryote, having no nucleus. Prokaryotes include bacteria and blue-green algae.
Postorbital septum
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
A bony petition behind the eye that isolates the eye from the muscles of the jaw and forms a bony eye socket, or orbit, in which the eye lies.