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Evolutionary anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of theevolution ofhuman physiology andhuman behaviour^[1] and of the relation betweenhominids and non-hominidprimates, builds onnatural science and onsocial science. Various fields and disciplines of evolutionary anthropology include:

• human evolution andanthropogeny
• paleoanthropology andpaleontology of both human and non-human primates
• primatology and primateethology
• thesociocultural evolution ofhuman behavior, including phylogenetic approaches tohistorical linguistics
• thecultural anthropology andsociology of humans
• thearchaeological study of humantechnology and of its changes over time and space
• human evolutionary genetics and changes in thehuman genome over time
• theneuroscience,endocrinology, andneuroanthropology of human and primate cognition, culture, actions and abilities
• human behavioural ecology and the interaction between humans and the environment
• studies of humananatomy,physiology,molecular biology,biochemistry, and differences and changes between species, variation between human groups, and relationships to cultural factors

Evolutionary anthropology studies both thebiological and thecultural evolution of humans, past and present. Based on ascientific approach, it brings together fields such as archaeology,behavioral ecology,psychology, primatology, andgenetics. As a dynamic andinterdisciplinary field, it draws on many lines of evidence to understand thehuman experience, past and present.

Studies of human biological evolution generally focus on the evolution of the human form. Cultural evolution involves the study of cultural change over time and space and frequently incorporatescultural-transmission models. Cultural evolution is not the same as biological evolution: human culture involves the transmission of cultural information (comparememetics), and such transmission can behave in ways quite distinct fromhuman biology andgenetics. The study of cultural change increasingly takes place throughcladistics and genetic models.

• Anthropology
• Human evolution

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