The discipline of anthropology studies humanity in all the cultures of the world, both past and represent. This study includes humankind's physical development and the wide diversity of lifestyles people have created.
Anthropology is a social science.
It shares techniques and methods with other behavioral sciences and also draws upon physical and biological sciences. A minor is also available. Anthropology is unique among the social and behavioral sciences because it focuses intensely on non-Western cultures. Anthropologists obtain data primarily from field research and comparative cross-cultural studies in time and space. Thus, anthropology provides theoretical and empirical bases for development of hypotheses about human behavior, and for testing the breadth and applicabilities of such hypotheses.