How did Claude Levi-Strauss apply structural linguistics to anthropology?

Anthropology is the study of (hu)man(kid) by way of clues like tools and records of his behavior(s).

Claude Levi-Strauss took the idea that language, its patterns and structure, could contain a DNA of sorts. This DNA could be used to trace backward a linguistic map of the human mind(s) that generated and used the language. This examination and subsquent stance led to the Jung-like assertion that all humankind (perhaps sub-devided by ethnicity... see Noam Chomsky) shares a hard-wired vocabulary and anatomy of consciousness and, thereby we can see universally shared traits in indivual and collective behavior. These insights could then be used to anticipate as well as understand human behavior(s) and their traits.