physical anthropology en · NOUN
Etymology
Compound of physical + anthropology. Attested from the 19th century.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The branch of anthropology that studies physical aspects of human beings and closely related species.
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.
1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64: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,
1890, Gerson Da Cunah, “The nasal index in biological anthropology”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, page 533:
Relateds
linguistic anthropology · archaeology · cultural anthropology · social anthropology