As part of your job, you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations, or watch the behavior of monkeys and apes, or dig for early hominid bones in East Africa. You are a(n):

a. ethnologist.
b. primatologist.
c. ethnographer.
d. physical anthropologist.
e. cultural anthropologist.


ANSWER: d

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