Biological anthropology: Difference between revisions

== History ==

=== Origins ===

Biological Anthropology looks different today than it did even twenty years ago. The name is even relatively new, having been 'physical anthropology' for over a century, with some practitioners still applying that term.<ref>Ellison, Peter T. (2018). "The evolution of physical anthropology". ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology''. '''165.4''': 615–625. 2018.</ref> Biological anthropologists look back to the work of [[Charles Darwin]] as a major foundation for what they do today. However, if one traces the intellectual genealogy back to physical anthropology's beginnings—before the discovery of much of what we now know as the hominin fossil record—then the focus shifts to human biological variation. Some editors, see below, have rooted the field even deeper than formal science.