HUMAN ECOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human ecology mean? 

• HUMAN ECOLOGY (noun)
  The noun HUMAN ECOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

  Familiarity information: HUMAN ECOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

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• HUMAN ECOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

demography; human ecology

Hypernyms ("human ecology" is a kind of...):

sociology (the study and classification of human societies)