The term comes from the Greek anthropos for man and logos for study .
Anthropology has the honor of being the original interdisciplinary discipline.
The holistic, comparative, and evolutionary framework embraced by anthropologists encourages them to utilize the insights of natural scientists, social scientists, and scholars in the humanities to better understand the human condition. Consequently, anthropologists offer sophisticated biocultural explanations of similarity and diversity in the human species. Throughout the semester, we will explore how the interplay of cultural creativity and material constraint shapes human nature, human society, and the human past as well as the human present. In the process, you will be exposed to the various theoretical approaches which anthropologists have utilitzed to better understand man's physical evolution and the behavior that makes us all human.