Biological anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and in forensic anthropology. It draws upon human anthropometrics, human genetics, human osteology and includes neuroanthropology, the study of human brain evolution, and of culture as neurological adaptation to environment. In two centuries biological anthropology has been involved in a range of controversies. The quest for human origins was accompanied by the evolution debate and various racial theories. The nature and nurture debate became a political battleground. There have been various attempts to correlate human physique with psychological traits such as intelligence, criminality and personality type, many of which proved themselves mistaken and are now obsolete. Wikipedia [ - ]

Biological anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the... [ + ]