Anthropology
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Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity that crosses biology and sociology, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, i
Bernardino de Sahagún is considered to be the founder of modern anthropology.
Forensic anthropologists can help identify skeletonized human remains, such as these found lying in scrub in Western Australia, c. 1900–1910.
A Punu tribe mask, Gabon, Central Africa
Five of the seven known fossil teeth of Homo luzonensis found in Callao Cave
Human evolution
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Homo sapiens is a distinct species of the hominid family of primates, which includes all the great apes. Over their evolutionary history, humans gradually developed traits such as bipedalism, dexterit
Notharctus tenebrosus, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Reconstructed tailless Proconsul skeleton
Genetic data suggest that chimpanzees and humans may have diverged from a common ancestor between 9 and 7 million years ago.
Chimpanzee nest. Later hominins may have developed niche creating shelter-building traditions from such earlier nest-building practices.