A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleontology and prehistoric archeology, hominid evolution, anthropological linguistics, ethnography, ethnology, ethnohistory, socio-cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, research methods, and applications to areas such as medicine, forensic pathology, museum studies, and international affairs.
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Top 7
Iowa
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Anthropology among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA | 16
(3.9%) |  |  | |
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| | Luther College
Decorah, IA | 14
(2.6%) |  |  | |
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| | Central College
Pella, IA | 7
(2.0%) | |  | |
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| | University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA | 44
(1.0%) | | | |
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| | University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA | 15
(0.7%) | |  | |
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| | Iowa State University
Ames, IA | 23
(0.5%) | | | |
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| | Drake University
Des Moines, IA | 1
(0.1%) |  | | |
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