In the simplest of words, Anthropology is the systematic study of what makes humans human. Anthropology studies the origin, behavior, societies, cultures, linguistics, biology and everything else related to the human species. Anthropologists concern themselves with the mere concept of our reality so we as people can at least begin to grasp an understanding of this world we live in. They form and test hypotheses about our species so they can develop theories about us. There are four subfields to anthropology and they are Cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and Physical anthropology or Biological anthropology. Physical anthropology focuses on humans as biological organisms as well as human evolution and the genetic variation that makes us all different. Paleoanthropology, forensic anthropology, and primatology also fall under physical anthropology. Cultural anthropology is the study of the different variations of human thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Its two main components are ethnography and ethnology. Archaeology is the study of history, or the study of the dead, which includes dead societies, cultures, languages, and much more and Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Some subfields to linguistics are phonology (the study of language sounds), morphology (The study of pattern and Formation of language), syntax (Principles of sentence making), and grammar (The structure of language in it’s entirety).
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