They suspend their own sense of what is “normal” in order to understand the perspectives of the people they study

anthropologists compare and contrast data in order to understand what all humans have in common, how we differ, and how we have changed over time.

anthropology, by definition, is the study of humans

biological anthropologists are interested in how nutrition and disease affect human growth and development

Some biological anthropologists focus on our closest living relatives: monkeys and apes. They examine the biological and behavioral similarities and differences between nonhuman primates and human primates