It is anthropology's attempt to comprehend in its wholeness the interrelation between the biological and cultural factors of the nature of man that distinguishes it from other disciplines studying one or another aspect of man and his works. Biological Anthropology Biological anthropology considers man's evolutionary history, the causes of present genetic diversity, and the biological basis of human behavior. Biological anthropology explores the biological basis for variation in human morphology, physiology, and behavior across different modern populations, and through human evolutionary history.
Human evolution is a biological process with both social and physical aspects.
It explores the interrelated process of behavioral and physical changes for humans, with emphasis on evolutionary mechanism. It utilizes the evidence and concepts of paleontology, population genetics, and ecology. Cultural Anthropology Cultural anthropology is concerned with the lifeways, or cultures, of the entire range of human societies past and present, with their diversities and their similarities, and how they persist and how they change. It is interested not only in the ways in which societies organize their social, economic, and political affairs, but also in how they organize the understandings and meanings by which their members live. Ethnology takes living peoples and past societies to be its subject matter.