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By the 1960s, anthropologists weren’t content to simply study humanity — they wanted to apply what they’d learned about humanity to pressing real-world problems such as poverty. This approach, called applied anthropology, is an important facet of anthropology today, shaping some anthropologists’ research plans (and entire careers) as well as determining where the lessons the anthropologist has learned will be applied.

Today, anthropology is a multidisciplinary study, one that draws on evidence from many studies in many different academic disciplines. Throughout this book I describe the discoveries of generations of anthropologists worldwide. Keep in mind that such discoveries draw on all sorts of lines of evidence to flesh out the human story. You can read about these other kinds of evidence, and the subfields of anthropology, in Chapter 3.