Evolutionary anthropology

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Evolutionary anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of the

hominids and non-hominid primates, builds on natural science and on social science
. Various fields and disciplines of evolutionary anthropology include:

Evolutionary anthropology studies both the

human 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 incorporates

cultural-transmission models. Cultural evolution is not the same as biological evolution: human culture involves the transmission of cultural information (compare memetics), and such transmission can behave in ways quite distinct from human biology and genetics. The study of cultural change increasingly takes place through cladistics
and genetic models.

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