human ecology
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of human ecology
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Malm is a scholar of human ecology, an interdisciplinary field of research that focuses on human relationships to their environments across cultures.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023
With these unique components, she looks at the relationship between visual culture and human ecology.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Scores are optional for entry to schools of arts and sciences; engineering; human ecology; and industrial and labor relations.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
She attended the College of the Atlantic in Maine and studied human ecology, then interned at the Field Museum's insect division, where her first responsibility was the delicate task of "shaving spider genitalia."
From Chicago Tribune • Oct. 27, 2014
Geography, an introduction to human ecology, by C. Landon White & George T. Renner.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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