The scientific study of culture, with the goal of understanding the roots of human and
non-human cultural behavior through a study of present and past human cultures, human
biology, and the
biology and culture of humanity's genetic relatives.
Anthropology is
broken up into five main branches: Cultural Anthropology, which studies existing human cultures; Arcaheology, which studies human cultures in the past; Linguistics, which studies the development of human language; Physical (Forensic) Anthropology, which stuides human biology; and Primatology, which studies primates and their cultures, human's closest genetic. relatives .