The Science of Physical Anthropology, which views the modern human as a biological entity, introduces humans to one another by investigating their morphological, anatomical, and physiological features and qualities. It looks at the organization and characteristics of humans as a population. It delves deeply into the genetic structure as well as all environmental elements that contribute to the development of human morphological, anatomical, and physiological structures and traits. As a result, Physical Anthropology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines and methodologies. It analyzes the hereditary structure and features of humans using genetics and human genetics disciplines.
While studying humans as biological entities, it delves into the sciences of General Biology, Anatomy, and Human Biology in depth. It examines human biological variety as well as the causes that contribute to it. How and in what ways do humans grow and develop? Morphological characteristics of humans are investigated using techniques and sciences from anthropometrics, sports anthropology, criminal anthropology, statistics, and biostatistics. It explores the environmental elements that influence human growth and development using Ecology and Nutrition concepts, as well as Nutritional Anthropology sciences. It makes significant contributions to health, sports, engineering, architecture, clothing, and furniture design through the use of science branches and techniques such as genetics, human growth and development, somatology, anthropometry, sports anthropometry, nutrition principles, and nutrition anthropology, as well as ergonomics.
In this sense, the Department of Physical Anthropology is the scientific discipline that analyzes modern humans as biological entities at the population level. Physical Anthropology employs scientific disciplines such as Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Geology, Geography, Climatology, Botany, and Radiology in its examination of modern humans. Thus, students have the option to perform field research investigations. The applied studies aim to help students analyze persons from biological and physical viewpoints.
