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  2. The Trimates - Wikipedia

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    The Trimates, [1] [2] sometimes called Leakey's Angels, [3] is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, [4] and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, respectively.

  3. Field research - Wikipedia

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    Field research has a long history. Cultural anthropologists have long used field research to study other cultures. Although the cultures do not have to be different, this has often been the case in the past with the study of so-called primitive cultures, and even in sociology the cultural differences have been ones of class.

  4. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [4] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users. [5]

  5. Middletown studies - Wikipedia

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    The second study only used one-tenth of the number of researchers used in the first, and as a result, it is not considered as in-depth as the first one. [citation needed] Also, the second study is not as neutral as the first. [citation needed] The authors openly attack the "business class" and cite theorists such as Thorstein Veblen.

  6. Branches of science - Wikipedia

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    Logic (from Greek: λογική, logikḗ, 'possessed of reason, intellectual, dialectical, argumentative') [5] [6] [note 1] is the systematic study of valid rules of inference, i.e. the relations that lead to the acceptance of one proposition (the conclusion) on the basis of a set of other propositions ().

  7. Observational study - Wikipedia

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    Cross-sectional study: involves data collection from a population, or a representative subset, at one specific point in time. Longitudinal study: correlational research study that involves repeated observations of the same variables over long periods of time. Cohort study and Panel study are particular forms of longitudinal study.

  8. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    denotes someone who studies a certain field (the field of _____-logy); a specialist; one who treats Greek λογιστής (logistḗs), studier, practitioner (lit., accountant) oncologist, pathologist-logy: denotes the academic study or practice of a certain field; the study of Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logíā) base noun for the study of something

  9. Biology - Wikipedia

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    Biology is the scientific study of life. [1] [2] [3] It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. [1] [2] [3] For instance, all organisms are composed of at least one cell that processes hereditary information encoded in genes, which