Biological Anthropology: A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution
- ISBN-10
- 0133692086
- ISBN-13
- 9780133692082
- Series
- Biological Anthropology
- Category
- Human evolution
- Pages
- 595
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Authors
- Noel Thomas Boaz, Alan J. Almquist
Description
For the introductory physical anthropology course. It may also be appropriate for the upper level biological anthropology course. This innovative new text narrates the history of the evolutionary progression of the human lineage through time. Evolution by natural selection provides the conceptual framework as students learn the essentials of molecular anthropology and genetics, then are led through geological time to the origins of vertebrates, mammals, primates, hominoids, and finally hominids. In each section, behavior, morphology, adaptation, and ecology are discussed to provide the comparative basis for human origins.
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