Anthropology

Anthropology ( /ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/) is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος), "human being", and -logia (-λογία), "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German philosopher Magnus Hundt.

Anthropology's basic concerns are "What defines Homo sapiens?", "Who are the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens?", "What are humans' physical traits?", "How do humans behave?", "Why are there variations and differences among different groups of humans?", "How has the evolution
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22)
Ik ga leven
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The Interpretation of Cultures
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Tristes Tropiques
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
Patterns of Culture
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)

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