physical anthropology
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The branch of anthropology that studies physical aspects of human beings and closely related species.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In the meantime I must briefly refer to the doubt that has often been raised about the utility of minute measurements, deep studies of physical anthropology, statistical tables, and elaborate maps,"
- "By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical."