What is more interesting physical anthropology or cultural anthropology class?

Question

UT Austin students?! what do you think?

Answer 1

Well, what are you interested in? I think they are both interesting, but some people prefer one to the other. You could take a course in each and see which you liked...

Physical anthropology studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. It deals with: Anthropometry (refers to the measurement of living human individuals for the purposes of understanding human physical variation), Human evolution, Primatology (the study of non-human primates), and Race.

Cultural anthropology is one of four fields of anthropology (the holistic study of humanity) as it developed in the United States. It is the branch of anthropology that has developed and promoted "culture" as a meaningful scientific concept; it is also the branch of anthropology that studies cultural variation among humans.