- The 4 subfields of anthropology are:
- Biological anthropology - the study of human biology in an evolutionary framework, includes paleoanthropology which is the search for and study of hominid fossils, primatology which is the study of non-human primates and how their behaviour and morphology relates to our own species, forensic anthropology which is the application of human biology and osteology in legal investigations.
- Archeology - the study of material culture of past people groups.
- Cultural anthropology - the study of human societies in the present or recent past, including governments, religions, taboos/customs, gender roles.
- Linguistic anthropology - the study of language and how it interacts with social systems.
- Anthropology combines the biological and social.
- Biological anthropology exemplifies the importance of multi-disciplinary science and collaboration.