Ethnology - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Ethnology :  (noun)

1: the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics

Based on WordNet 2.0

Ethnology : \Eth*nol"o*gy\n. [Gr. ? nation _ -logy.] The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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