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Anthropology (n.) is concerned with questions such as how small bands and villages gave way to chiefdoms and chiefdoms to mighty states and empires.
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Anthropology (n.) is concerned with questions such as what the first human societies and languages were like.
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Anthropology (n.) is concerned with questions such as why distinctions of rank come into being.
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Anthropology (n.) is concerned with such questions as why cultures have evolved along diverse but often remarkably convergent pathways.
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Anthropology (n.) is concerned with why, when, and where human life arose.
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Cultural ecology (n.) is how environment shapes culture — culture change is induced by adaptation to the environment.
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Cultural materialism (n.) is the study of the determining role of technical and environmental factors in human affairs.
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Culture (n.) is the learned repertoire of thoughts and actions exhibited by members of social groups.
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Hypodescent (n.) is racial classification based on small amounts of genetic inheritance from a particular group. It is also known as the 'the one drop rule'.
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Meat hunger (n.) is the human craving for meat.
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