Anthroponomy

The science of human behavior that searches for worldwide principles (i.e., universals) of human behavior--that is, principles of behavior and of human development that can be shown empirically to hold true for people everywhere regardless of differences in culture, race, language, ethnicity, gender, and other such defining conditions. PARTheory and research illustrate the anthroponomical endeavor. (See universalist approach; phylogenetic perspective; phylogenetic model)