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This glossary contains nearly 2300 unique terms and 2800 entries covering terms used in biological, cultural, linguistic anthropology and archaeology. There is a special emphasis on terms from kinship, biological anthropology, and medical anthropology.

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  1. Wild Card: rac* selects entries with race, racial, racist, etc.
  2. Quotation marks: "homo neanderthalensis" selects entries containing the binomen Homo neanderthalensis, but not the subspecies Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
  3. Terms must be at least 4 characters in length; and will be ignored, but and* will match Androstenedione, Andes, etc.

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  1. Boolean operators: To choose entries about Hispanics and African Americans but not Asian Americans, use INCLUDES hispanic* AND African American AND NOT Asian American *.

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