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   Anthropic

   /anˈTHräpik/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (in philosophy and cosmology) involving or concerning the existence of human life, especially as a constraint on theories of the universe: "anthropic reasoning is only interesting in a scientific sense if it can help us understand how the universe came to be the way it is"
   • 2. (typically of environmental degradation) caused by human beings; anthropogenic: "anthropic climate change"

   Word Origin early 19th century (in the sense ‘relating to human beings’): from Greek anthrōpikos, from anthrōpos ‘human being’: the second sense may also be interpreted as a shortening of anthropogenic.

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