Job Description:

• 1) Studies meanings and causes of human physical differences and interrelated effects of culture, heredity, and environment on human form: Studies human fossils and their meaning in terms of long-range human evolution.

• 2) Observes and measures bodily variations and physical attributes of existing human types.

• 3) Studies physical and physiological adaptations to differing environments and hereditary characteristics of living populations.

• 4) Studies growth patterns, sexual differences, and aging phenomena of human groups, current and past.

• 5) May study museum collections of skeletal remains.

• 6) May specialize in measurement of body or skeleton and be designated Anthropometrist.

• 7) May specialize in epidemiology and nutritional studies, especially in developing or preliterate societies, and be designated Medical Anthropologist.