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Anthropology consists of the study of humankind. A primary trait that traditionally distinguished anthropology from other humanistic disciplines is an emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons.

In the United States, 'anthropology' is traditionally divided into four sub-disciplines:

• Physical Anthropology, which studies primate behavior, human evolution, and population genetics
• Cultural Anthropology, (often known as socio-cultural anthropology). studies social networks, diffusion, social behavior, kinship patterns, law, politics, and other expressions of culture over an extended period of time
• Linguistic Anthropology studies the variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture
• Archaeology, which studies the material remains of human societies. 

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