What is Anthropology? Put simply, it is the holistic, "all-hands-on-deck" scientific study of humanity across time, space, language, and culture. If humans have done it, said it, dug it up, or evolved from it, anthropology claims it. While other disciplines focus on narrow slivers of human behavior—like economics focusing on spending habits or psychology focusing on individual brain chemistry—anthropology steps back to view the whole picture. It draws upon the biological and physical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities to figure out how humans became such bizarre, artistic, tool-using primates. As Princeton University notes, anthropology's core strength lies in its insistence on a comparative, cross-cultural perspective that offers a vital counterweight to "culture-bound" ideas about human nature. Let's Dive In!