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Anthropology

the science of man word anthropology has been variously defined as "The doctrine of anatomy; the doctrine of the form and structure of the body of man."

The word is also applied to the science which investigates the relation in which man stands to the inferior animals. In this sense ethnology is a cognate science to anthropology. measure-

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