Anthropology.html Anthropology is at once both easy to define and difficult to describe.
Nothing human is alien to anthropology.
Anthropology attempts to understand the whole panorama, in time and space, of the human condition. Every day we might see news items related to anthropology, or ask anthropological questions. The science of anthropology is based on the idea that our behavior can best be understood by comparing it with those of people in other times and places around the world. Anthropology is the evolutionary, cross-cultural study of human behavior. It can never lose its interest, for its subject is us.