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Physical anthropology, sometimes called "biological anthropology," studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, and the fossil record of human evolution.

Some of the early branches of physical anthropology, such as early anthropometry[?], are now rejected as pseudoscience. Metrics such as the cephalic index were used to derive behavioral characteristics.

Renowned Paleoanthropologists

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