Title: What is the importance of Anthropology? | Yahoo Answers
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What is the importance of Anthropology?
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Content: It might sound arrogant or narcissistic but all human beings have questioned what we are. What is a Homo Sapien? What distinguishes us between our closest relatives (the apes)? Where did our paths diverge? Those are just the beginning to the many mysteries that our world contains and none should arouse a more ardent curiosity than the fundamentals and histories of our species. It being a social science, not much of it is statistics and facts (although with science being so advanced nowadays, there are many links to substantiate anthropology's philosophical theories) but submerges more into the differences in cultures, both in history and now. Most importantly, it makes us aware that we are all the same. That no matter what color, ethnicity, religion or creed you are, we are all human. We are not the first to experience conflict over such petty things. Anthropology teaches that for generations and civilizations ago there was somebody like you, in a totally different world experiencing something so very different and yet so very similar.