What is Anthropology?

Anthropology is the science that is responsible for studying the human being from an integral point of view.
For this, it does not only take into account historical facts, but also takes into account circumstances such as evolution. biological, ecological environment, customs of the time and the influence of other human groups, to determine the functioning of the societies.
To achieve this knowledge, anthropology has several tools, which given their breadth have formed practically independent branches:
Archeology: It is in charge of looking for the vestiges of ancient cultures, from their buildings and monuments, to the utensils of daily life.
Linguistics: The one dedicated to identifying the origins and characteristics of the language spoken in a given time and place.
Ethnography: which deals with determining from which known human groups the group under study comes.
Anthropology in its various sub-branches: social, biological, legal and historical.
The creation of anthropology dates from the nineteenth century, as a product of the formulation of the Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin, and the approach of the Herbert Spencer's Social Evolutionism, who argued that just as animal species evolve, societies also undergo evolutionary processes, separation and extinction.

To achieve this knowledge, they considered it necessary to know the social structure, customs, physical appearance, language and other characteristics of the society to study, compare them with other known, previous, parallel and later cultures, to determine their origins and interactions, and thus determine the influence and evolution of it, periods of splendor and decline or the circumstances of its extinction.
Even in the field of biological anthropology, his study has recently focused not only on the aspects evolutionary and adaptation of man to the environment, but also in his influence on the ecological balance of the environment.