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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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