Anthropology is a field-study oriented discipline which makes extensive use of the comparative method in analysis.

"Hubris" is too much self-confidence or ego.

Social science is one branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned,orderly,systematic,and dispassionate manner that natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.

The value of knowledge and the return on the public investment in research depends,in part,upon wide distribution and ready access.

There is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.

A fable is usually a short tale featuring animals that can talk and think like humans.

Futurism,an early twentieth-century movement in art ,rejected all traditions and attempted to glorify contemporary life by emphasizing the machine and motion.

One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind,feelings,traits of character ,human nature,and so on.

Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in haealth knowledge and care.

Modern industry is based on the conception of the maximum production at lowest cost.

Growth,which rarely continues beyond the age of 20,demands calories and nutrients-notably,protein -to feed expanding tissues.

Coal was formed out of dead forests by a long and slow process.

He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the "survival of the fittest",in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger,more advanced races and societies.

Many species can communicate an amazing amount of information via sound.