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Exploring Biological Anthropology Craig Stanford

Exploring Biological Anthropology By Craig Stanford

Exploring Biological Anthropology by Craig Stanford

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Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials by Craig Stanford

For one semester/quarter courses in introductory biological anthropology or physical anthropology, courses.

Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly evolved from the study of physical anthropology into biological anthropology, incorporating the evolutionary biology of humankind based on information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics of individuals and of populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior.

Exploring Biological Anthropology is a core concepts version of the successful text, Biological Anthropology. It provides students with a strong foundation in biological anthropology without some of the extended examples found in the original text. Exploring Biological Anthropology offers concise coverage of core material, while maintaining thorough coverage of traditionally important topics.

About Craig Stanford

Craig Stanford is a professor of anthropology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Jane Goodall Research Center and chairs the Department of Anthropology. He has conducted field research on primate behavior in south Asia, Latin America, and East Africa. He is well known for his long-term studies of meat-eating among wild chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, and of the relationship between mountain gorillas and chimpanzees in the Impenetrable Forest of Uganda. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 scientific publications. Craig has received USC's highest teaching awards for his introductory Biological Anthropology course. In addition, he has published seven books on primate behavior and human origins, including Significant Others (2001) and Upright (2003). He and his wife, Erin Moore, a cultural anthropologist at USC, live in South Pasadena, California, and have three children.

John Allen is a research scientist and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, for several years. His primary research interests are the evolution of the human brain and behavior, and behavioral disease. He also has research experience in molecular genetics, nutritional anthropology, and the history of anthropology. He has conducted fieldwork in Japan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Palau. He has received university awards for teaching introductory courses in biological anthropology both as a graduate student instructor at the University of California and as a faculty member at the University of Auckland. John and his wife, Stephanie Sheffield, have two sons, Reid and Perry (the Berry).

Susan Anton is an associate professor in the Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology at New York University, where she also directs the M.A. program in Human Skeletal Biology. Her field research concerns the evolution of genus Homo in Indonesia and human impact on island ecosystems in the South Pacific. She is best known for her work on H. erectus and dispersal. She is joint editor of the Journal of Human Evolution. She received awards for teaching as a graduate student instructor at the University of California and was Teacher of the Year at the University of Florida. She has been twice elected to Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Susan and her husband, Carl Swisher, a geochronologist, raise Anatolian shepherd dogs.

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations

Chapter 1. Introduction: What Is Biological Anthropology?

Chapter 2. Origins of Evolutionary Thought

Part II: Mechanisms of Evolution

Chapter 3. Genetics: Cells and Molecules

Chapter 4. Genetics: From Genotype to Phenotype

Chapter 5. The Forces of Evolution and the Formation of Species

Chapter 6.Human Variation: Evolution, Adaptation, and Adaptability

Part III: Primates

Chapter 7.The Primates

Chapter 8.Primate Behavior

Part IV: The Fossil Record

Chapter 9. Geology and Primate Origins

Chapter 10. Early Hominids and Australopithecus

Chapter 11. Rise of the Genus Homo

Chapter 12. Archaic Homo Sapiens and Neandertals

Chapter 13. The emergence and Dispersal of Homo Sapiens

Part V: Biology and Behavior of Modern Humans

Chapter 14. Evolution of Brain and Behavior

Chapter 15. Biomedical Anthropology

Appendix A. Forensic Anthropology

Appendix B. Primate and Human Comparative Anatomy

Appendix C. The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

Appendix D. Metric-Imperial Conversions

Additional information

CIN0132288575G
9780132288576
0132288575
Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials by Craig Stanford
Craig Stanford
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20070517
480
N/A
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