Antropologi taler sayan ngalimbak, mabinayan saking sejarah alam, taler ring panuntating abad  kaping -19 disiplin sampun nyansan mauwah antuk wangun wangun sane  modern, duk warsa 1935, sekadi,  minab anggen T.K Penniman nulis sejarah disiplin ilmu sane majudul A Hundred Years of Anthropology.
Anthropology grew increasingly distinct from natural history and by the end of the 19th century the discipline began to crystallize into its modern form - by 1935, for example, it was possible for T.K. Penniman to write a history of the discipline entitled A Hundred Years of Anthropology.