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This includes the study of human genetics and racial variation. |
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Connections to science include physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and, most importantly, biology. This is also closely connected to personal studies. Studies of the human body including body systems and function, diseases, life cycle, and form and appearance are highly important to this area. Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, development psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology is much less directly connected to racial variation. Biography may be useful. |
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Connections to other areas of anthropology including social foundations, demography, other areas of physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups are particularly significant. Culture including material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture will also be useful. Connections to institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion can be made. This can also be connected to sociology including social structure and change, communities, and peoples of the world. This has been examined informally throughout history, including prehistory, antiquity, classical and medieval times, and modern times. The future of these studies is obscure. |
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