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Applied social sciences [r]: Applied social sciences are those social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of communities, organizations and persons. ^[e]
Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]

Cultural anthropology [r]: The branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development. ^[e]
- Culture area [r]: A region, in anthropology, in which the environment and cultures are very similar. ^[e]
- Ethnology [r]: The theoretical study of human cultures and societies. ^[e]
  - Ethnic group [r]: A population whose members identify with one another as distinct from others. This usually occurs through a perceived common history, and often also includes shared culture, race, religion, or language. ^[e]
  - Cult [r]: Add brief definition or description
    - Cargo cult [r]: A group of social movements that began in Melanesia in the late nineteenth century which believe that manufactured goods, including canned goods, airplanes, and automobiles, were created by spirits or ancestors of Melanesian people. ^[e]
Physical anthropology [r]: The anthropological study of humans as a biological species. ^[e]
- Human evolution [r]: The study of the physical and behavioral genetic adaptations of the species belonging to the subfamily hominidae. ^[e]
  - Evolution of the human diet [r]: Factors in the development of the human diet in history. ^[e]
Social anthropology [r]: Add brief definition or description

Anthropological linguistics [r]: The study of language through human genetics and human development. ^[e]
- Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. ^[e]
  - Creole (language) [r]: Native language, such as Haitian Creole, which under most definitions originated as a pidgin (a rudimentary language without native speakers, created by at least two groups of speakers as a contact language. i.e. to allow immediate communication) but became as complex as any other language through being acquired by children as a first language. ^[e]
Ethnobotany [r]: The science that studies how plants are used in various cultures. ^[e]
Ethnomathematics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Claude Lévi-Strauss [r]: French anthropologist who developed structural anthropology as a method of understanding human society and culture. ^[e]

Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. ^[e]
Albert Gallatin [r]: 1761-1849, Swiss born American statesman and anthropologist ^[e]
Chyi Yu [r]: A singer from Taiwan. ^[e]
Lee R. Berger [r]: Anthropologist and archeologist noted for work on Australopithecus africanus and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis. ^[e]