PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physical anthropology mean? 

• PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (noun)
  The noun PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of anthropology dealing with the genesis and variation of human beings

  Familiarity information: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of anthropology dealing with the genesis and variation of human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("physical anthropology" is a kind of...):

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical anthropology"):

craniometry (the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts)