Anthropology

=== Biocultural ===
{{main|Biocultural anthropology}}
Biocultural anthropology is the [[scientific]] exploration of the relationships between [[human biology]] and culture. [[Biological anthropology|Physical anthropologists]] throughout the first half of the 20th century viewed this relationship from a [[Race (classification of human beings)|racial]] perspective; that is, from the assumption that [[Typology (anthropology)|typological]] human biological differences lead to cultural differences.<ref name=Biocult_syn>{{cite book |editor-last=Goodman |editor-first=Alan H. |editor-link=Alan H. Goodman |editor-last2=Leatherman |editor-first2=Thomas L. |title=Building A New Biocultural Synthesis |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T8ZhpG_B_6MC |isbn=978-0-472-06606-3 |access-date=6 September 2020 |archive-date=16 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616142101/http://books.google.com/books?id=T8ZhpG_B_6MC |url-status=live }}</ref> After World War II the emphasis began to shift toward an effort to explore the role culture plays in shaping human biology.