His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.

Developments in the systematic study of ancient civilizations through the disciplines of Classics and Egyptology informed both archaeology and eventually social anthropology, as did the study of East and South Asian languages and cultures.

A 40-year study of African, Asian, and South American tropical forests by the University of Leeds, shows tropical forests absorb about 18 % of all carbon dioxide added by fossil fuels.

Being a study of the published results from a major project of the Institute of African and Asian Studies: the Language Survey of the Nuba Mountains.

One recent study on the mitochondrial DNA of various common carp indicate that koi are of the East Asian subspecies.

However, another recent study on the mitochondrial DNA of koi have found that koi are descended from multiple lineages of common carp from both Western Eurasian and East Asian varieties.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

In the United States, a 2010 study indicated that Asian Americans are perceived as most likely to be nerds, followed by White Americans, while Hispanics and African Americans were perceived as least likely to be nerds.

The study showed that black skinned people were 3. 7 times more likely to be pulled over by police than white skinned people, while Asian people were less likely to be pulled over than whites or blacks.

One study, using samples from Hetian ( Hotan ) only, found that Uyghurs have 60 % European ancestry and 40 % East Asian ancestry.

A further study showed slightly greater European component ( 52 % European ) in the Uyghur population in southern Xinjiang, but slightly greater East Asian component ( 47 % European ) in the northern Uyghur population.

According to this study, Western African lions are more closely related to Asian lions than to South or East African lions.

Another study revealed there are three major types of lions, one North African – Asian, one southern African and one middle African.

Many East Asian martial arts also make extensive study and use of acupressure for self-defense and health purposes ( chin na, tui na ).

In one study, the phylogenies of SFV polymerase and the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit II from African and Asian primates were compared.

Sex-selection practices also occur among some South Asian immigrants in the United States: A study of the 2000 United States Census observed definite male bias in families of Chinese, Korean and Indian immigrants, which was getting increasingly stronger in families where first one or two children were female.

Snodgrass values historical study and the study of Asian cultures by architects as hermeneutical encounters with otherness.

In recognition of phenotypic differences between Indian and Southeast Asian specimens, the trinominals Bos gaurus gaurus and Bos gaurus laosiensis are provisionally accepted pending further morphometric and genetic study.

The study found that the Mestizo population of these Mexican states were on average 55 % of indigenous ancestry followed by 41. 8 % European, 1. 8 % African, and 1. 2 % East Asian ancestry.

A 2005 study by Michael F. Hammer reports genetic similarities between the Japanese and several other Asian populations, which shows that the common Y-DNA haplogroups of Japanese are D-P37. 1 ( 34. 7 %), O-P31 ( 31. 7 %), O-M122 ( 20. 1 %), C-M8 ( 5. 4 %), C-M217 ( 3. 1 %), NO ( 2. 3 %) and N ( 1. 5 %).

This study, and others, report that Y-chromosome patrilines crossed from the Asian mainland into the Japanese archipelago, and continue to make up a large proportion of the Japanese male lineage.

However in another large genome-wide association study of East Asian populations, it was both found that the Japanese are closer to Han Chinese, but the Koreans are relatively far away from Han Chinese if compared to Japanese.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

" While chemical issues in the brain that result in anxiety ( especially resulting from genetics ) are well documented, this study highlights an additional environmental factor that may result from being raised by parents suffering from chronic anxiety.

Population genetics is the study of allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four main evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow.

It is hence the study of the relationship between pharmaceuticals and genetics.

Other motivations for their study is to understand symbiosis, and to understand how bacteria with severely depleted genomes are able to survive, thus improving our knowledge of genetics and molecular biology.

This country's approach to genetics and eugenics was focused on Eugen Fischer's concept of phenogenetics and the Nazi twin study methods of Fischer and Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer.

The study of human evolution involves many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, linguistics, embryology and genetics.

Given that genes are universal to living organisms, genetics can be applied to the study of all living systems, from viruses and bacteria, through plants and domestic animals, to humans ( as in medical genetics ).

) Bateson popularized the usage of the word genetics to describe the study of inheritance in his inaugural address to the Third International Conference on Plant Hybridization in London, England, in 1906.

The study of the global properties of genomes of related organisms is usually referred to as genomics, which distinguishes it from genetics which generally studies the properties of single genes or groups of genes.

A 2007 study on the genetics of six subspecies — the West African, Rothschild, reticulated, Masai, Angolan and South African giraffe — suggests that they may in fact be separate species.

The study of heredity in biology is called genetics, which includes the field of epigenetics.

Maynard Smith then took a change of career, entering University College London ( UCL ) to study fruit fly genetics under Haldane.

Population genetics is the branch of biology that provides the mathematical structure for the study of the process of microevolution.

Polanyi noted what happened to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of Trofim Lysenko gained the backing of the State.

With advances in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, nutritional immunology, molecular medicine and genetics, the study of nutrition is increasingly concerned

It draws upon human anthropometrics ( body measurements ), human genetics ( molecular anthropology ) and human osteology ( the study of bones ) and includes neuroanthropology, the study of human brain evolution, and of culture as neurological adaptation to environment.

That Philip Morrison ’ s laudatory book review of The Mismeasure of Man in Scientific American, was written and published because the editors of the journal had " long seen the study of the genetics of intelligence as a threat to social justice.

The study of genetics is particularly inter-disciplinary.

He brings to the study of the human and non-human primate fossil record a background that combines evolutionary theory, population genetics, and biomechanics.

In the study of human genetics, sequence mining helps address the important goal of understanding the mapping relationship between the inter-individual variations in human DNA sequence and the variability in disease susceptibility.

A 2008 study of the genetics of Trogon suggested the genus originated in Central America and radiated into South America after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama ( as part of the Great American Interchange ), thus making trogons relatively recent arrivals in South America.