A professional who studies meanings and causes of human physical differences and interrelated effects of culture, heredity, and environment on human form. Responsibilities include:

• Studies human fossils and their meaning in terms of long-range human evolution.
• Observes and measures bodily variations and physical attributes of existing human types.
• Studies physical and physiological adaptations to differing environments and hereditary characteristics of living populations.
• Studies growth patterns, sexual differences, and aging phenomena of human groups, current and past.
• May study museum collections of skeletal remains.
• May specialize in measurement of body or skeleton and be designated Anthropometrist.
• May specialize in epidemiology and nutritional studies, especially in developing or preliterate societies, and be designated Medical Anthropologist.