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ohaa [14]
3 years ago
15

How are anthropologists able to make generalizations about human behavior?

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katrin2010 [14]3 years ago
7 0
The main way in which anthropologists are able to make generalizations about human behavior is by looking at how they used to live their life--their tools, migration patters, war tactics, etc--which are very similar throughout populations.
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