Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology

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

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Recessive

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A genetically determined characteristic that is expressed only in the homozygous recessive condition.

A genetic disease, inherited as a recessive, brought about by the absence of the enzyme responsible for the conversion of the amino acid phenylalanine to tyrosine. Phenylalanine accumulates in the ...

Turner's syndrome

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A genetic disease characterised by forty-five chromosomes with a sex chromosome count of x-; phenotypically female, but sterile.

Economic class

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A group that is defined by the economic position of its members in relation to the means of production in the society--the wealth and relative economic control they may command.

Paleospecies

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A group of similar fossils whose range of morphological variation does not exceed the range of variation of a closely related living species.

Patriclan

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A group that claims but cannot brace their descent through the male line from a common male ancestor.

Taxon

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A group of organisms at any level of the taxonomic hierarchy. The major taxa are the species and genus and the higher taxa, including the family, order, class, phylum, and kingdom.