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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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Penetrance

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The degree to which an allele is expressed in the phenotype.

Relative dating

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The determination of chronological sequence without recourse to a fixed time scale; e.g. The arrangement of artefacts in a typological sequence, or seriation (cf. Absolute dating).

Polyphyodonty

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The continuous replacement of teeth such as occurs in reptiles.

Function

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The contribution that a particular cultural trait makes to the longevity of the total culture.

Workday

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The culturally established number of hours that a person ideally spends at work each day.

Sexual dimorphism

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The condition in which differences in structure exist between males and females of the same species.

Sickle-cell trait

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The condition of being heterozygous for haemoglobin a and s. Yet the individual usually shows no abnormal symptoms.

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