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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of anthropology dealing with the genesis and variation of human beings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("physical anthropology" is a kind of...):
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical anthropology"):
craniometry (the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts)