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Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology Samantha M. Hens

Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology By Samantha M. Hens

Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology by Samantha M. Hens


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Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook and Laboratory Manual for Introductory Courses by Samantha M. Hens

For courses in Biological Anthropology.

This workbook and laboratory manual has been designed to complement a wide variety of introductory level laboratory courses in biological anthropology. It provides optimum flexibility to suit most laboratory environments.

It is organized into four sections, to reflect the organization of the typical introductory biological anthropology course: genetics and evolution, the human skeleton, non human primates, and our fossil ancestors.

About Samantha M. Hens

Samantha Hens is an associate professor of anthropology at California State University in Sacramento. Her research interests cover an array of topics in biological anthropology including osteology and skeletal biology, skeletal growth and development, morphometrics, functional anatomy, human evolution and forensic anthropology. She has published several journal articles on stature estimation in fossil hominids and sex estimation from the human pelvis and skull. Her most recent area of study has focused on three-dimensional analyses of growth and the development of sexual dimorphism in orangutan crania, and comparisons of sexual dimorphism between the orangutan and the gorilla. Samantha received the Outstanding Teacher Award in her college in 2006. She lives in northern California where she actively enjoys the outdoors and practices yoga.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Genetics and Evolution

  1. The Scientific Method
  2. Cell Biology and DNA
  3. Principles of Inheritance
  4. Human Variation
  5. Hardy-Weinberg: Genetics of Populations

Part 2: The Human Skeleton

  1. Introduction to the Human Skeleton
  2. The Appendicular Skeleton
  3. The Axial Skeleton
  4. Human Variation and Forensic Anthropology

Part 3: The Non-Human Primates

  1. Primate Classification
  2. Comparative Primate Anatomy
  3. Primate Behavior

Part 4: Human Ancestors

  1. The Bipedal Adaptation and Our Earliest Ancestors
  2. The Rise of the Genus Homo
  3. Later Homo and Modern Human Origins

Additional information

CIN0132250063G
9780132250061
0132250063
Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook and Laboratory Manual for Introductory Courses by Samantha M. Hens
Used - Good
Hardback
Pearson Education (US)
20070720
240
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