anthrop-, anthropo-, -anthrope, -anthropic, -anthropical, -anthropically, -anthropism, -anthropist, -anthropoid, -anthropus, -anthropy + (Greek: man; human being, mankind [including male (man, men; boy, boys) and female (woman, women; girl, girls); in other words, all members of the human race]; people)
academic anthropology
Educational careers that involve the teaching of anthropology at colleges and universities.
Academic anthropologists do research about mankind; however, the primary objectives are more for the contributions they can make to general knowledge about humans. Africanthropus
The name given to a type of primitive hominid of the Pleistocene in Africa, known from remains found near Lake Njarasa (or Eyasi) in Tanzania.
American Institute of Philanthropy
The American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) is a nonprofit organization whic was created by Daniel Borochoff in 1992 to address the continuing need for information regarding the financial efficiency, accountability, governance, and fundraising practices of charities.
Charity financial reporting can be inconsistent, unclear, and occasionally unethical or even fraudulent. anthrobot
A "human robot" based on a design by Leonardo da Vinci which replicates the movements of muscles and joints like those of human beings.
When Leonardo constructed his robot in 1495, he could control it so it would walk, stand and sit, open and close it's mouth, and raise its arms. He could also control it so its head would move back and forth from side to side.
The term anthrobot ("human robot") was coined by Mark Rosheim, a specialist in robotics. Rosheim's interest and work in Leonardo's robot started when he read a book by Carlo Pedretti, an Italian scholar, who discovered Leonardo's lost notebook containing the robot named Codex Huygens in 1950. Rosheim then initiated his own in-depth research, which took about five years to complete. —Based on information located at this
da Vinci Robotics page.
anthropic, anthropeic
1. Pertaining to humans or the period of their existence on earth.
2. Of or belonging to a human being; of a human sort. Also, concerned with or relating to human beings; in geology, applied to the period of the deposits in which human remains are found.
3. Anthropic principle is the assertion that the presence of intelligent life on earth places limits on the many ways the universe could have developed and could have caused the conditions of temperatkre that prevail today; the principle that theories of the universe are constrained by the need to allow for man's existence in it as an observer.
anthropical
Connected with, or attached to, human nature.
anthropic principle
1. A principle of reasoning in cosmology which states that the present existence of life on earth implies certain limits on the ways that the early universe could have evolved.
2. The assertion that any life existing in a universe will impose conditions that significantly restrict the physical properties of that universe.
anthropinism, anthropinistic
Consideration of or regarding things in their relation to man.
anthropobiology
1. The study of the biologic relationships of humans as a species.
2. The biological study of human beings and the anthropoid apes.
anthropocene
1. A term used to describe the current geological period, starting from the 18th century when human activities started to impact global climate and ecosystems.
2. The epoch in which human activity has been shaping, or developing, the environment of the earth.
anthropocentric, anthropocentrality
1. Regarding humankind as the most important factor in the universe.
2. Relating to the belief that humans are the center of the universe.
3. Regarding, or interpreting, natural events or conditions in terms of human values.
3. Evaluating all occurrences in nature or the universe solely by human values.
All mankind is divided into three classes:
Those who are immovable;
Those who are movable; and
Those who move.
—Benjamin Franklin anthropocentrically
In an anthropocentric manner or way.
anthropocentrism, anthropocentricism
1. An anthropocentric view or doctrine centering on mankind; regarding humans as the central fact of the universe, to which all surrounding facts have reference; that is, relating to the belief that humans are the center of the universe.
2. A human-centered concept of the living world that rejects, as impossible or illusory, human attainment of a more universal point of view.
anthropocentrist
Someone who professes anthropocentrism.
anthropochore, anthropochoric
Dispersal of organisms, such as seeds, as a result of human activity.
Links to other units that include the topic of "man", "mankind":
andro-;
homo-;
vir-.
Related "people, human" word units:
demo-;
ethno-;
ochlo-;
popu-;
publi-.
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