Physical anthropology
Physical anthropology, sometimes called "biological
anthropology," studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, and the fossil record of human evolution. See also:
Race.
Some of the early branches of physical anthropology, such as early
anthropometry, are now rejected as
pseudoscience. Metrics such as the
cephalic index were used to derive behavioral characteristics.
Renowned paleoanthropologists
External links
\n*American Association of Physical Anthropologists\n*
Paleoanthropology in the 1990s
\n\nCategory:Anthropology
