Paleontologist vs Anthropologist - What's the difference?
paleontologist | anthropologist |
one who studies paleontology
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One who is versed in anthropology.
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As nouns the difference between paleontologist and anthropologist
is that paleontologist is one who studies paleontology while anthropologist is one who is versed in anthropology.paleontologist
English
(paleontology)Alternative forms
* palaeontologist,Noun
(en noun)- An alternative approach is to break down cultures into ab-
stract elements and to establish, between elements of the same
type in different cultures, rather than between cultures themselves,
the same kind of relationships of historical descent and progressive
differentiation which the paleontologist sees in the evolution of
species.
anthropologist
English
Noun
(en noun)- In actual fact, it is hard to see how anyone could defend the prescriptive approach. In any other field of enquiry, it would be seen as patently absurd. What would we say of the social anthropologist who, instead of describing the way a given society is, sets about prescribing the way he thinks it ought to be? (We'd probably suggest he ought to give up Anthropology and take up Politics!) [...]
