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The Science of Humanics: Multidisciplinary Renaissance of General Anthropology
Author(s) -
Chapple Eliot D.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1978.80.1.02a00030
Subject(s) - multidisciplinary approach , nexus (standard) , scope (computer science) , the renaissance , anthropology , biological anthropology , sociology , epistemology , engineering ethics , computer science , social science , philosophy , history , art history , engineering , embedded system , programming language
Discussions of the scope and proper definition of anthropology make it worthwhile to outline why and how anthropology can be treated as a natural (and exact) science. The paper describes its multidisciplinary components and how the deterministic properties of biological individuality and the probabilistic constraints of the cultural dimensions can be brought together. Such a synthesis enables us to treat values within a biological framework and suggests the old term “humanics” for the multidisciplinary nexus . [anthropological biology, humanics, multidisciplinary synthesis, interaction measurement, behavioral biology]