Abstract

Anthropology offers a unique approach to looking at and understanding the world. The basis of anthropology lies in the study of the human condition, biological and cultural, and its diversity. The anthropological perspective provides a background that increases one's awareness of human biological variability. I view biological anthropology as focusing on three interrelated areas: evolution, population variability, and relationships among human biology, culture, and the environment. Increasingly, human biology is being applied in clinically related fields concerned with public health problems. Here I consider relationships between epidemiology and biological anthropology.

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