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subfield of biological anthropology dealing with human growth and development, adaptation to environmental extremes, and human genetics

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human biology

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the study of nonhuman primates and their anatomy, genetics, behaviour, and ecology

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primatology

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the study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and their primate kin

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paleoanthropology

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the study of the skeleton

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skeletal biology and osteology

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the study of diseases in ancestral human populations

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paleopathology

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the study of human remains applied to the legal context

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forensic anthropology

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among the first generation of biological anthropologists, these researchers made detailed measurements of the human body in all its forms

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anthropometrists

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the study of human remains in an archeological context

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bioarchaeology

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study how human cultural practices help spread disease and the effect of toxins and pollutants on human growth

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biomedical anthropologists

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the study of humans as organisms in an evolutionary context

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physical anthropology