The Fourth Edition continues to present traditional physical anthropology within a modern Darwinian framework, and includes coverage of contemporary discoveries to highlight the ever-increasing body of knowledge in biological anthropology.
The Fourth Edition continues to present traditional physical anthropology within a modern Darwinian framework, and includes coverage of contemporary discoveries to highlight the ever-increasing body of knowledge in biological anthropology.
By definition a population in Hardy - Weinberg equilibrium is not evolving . With this expectation , any observed changes in allele frequencies are clues that one or more evolutionary force is responsible . Determination of evolutionary ...
Philip Lieberman of Brown University thinks that an apelike throat persisted for some time in our hominid ancestors . His studies of fossil jaws and skulls persuade him that a more modern throat didn't evolve until some 500,000 years ...
He also helped identify the true remains of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and proved that a mummy reported to be Pizarro's was actually someone else's . Clyde Snow , another well - known forensic anthropologist , identified a ...
Additionally, we offer fantastic bundling options for the lab portion of your course with our Method & Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook and Laboratory Manual for Introductory Courses, or our Atlas of Anthropology. (Both able ...
This seventh edition presents the most recent findings and interpretations of topics in anthropology including Australopithecus sediba, the Denisovians, and epigenetics.
He is committed to an integrated, holistic anthropological approach. Fuentes wrote this text to help answer the "so what" questions and make anthropological knowledge relevant to everyday life.
Emphasizing themes and theories, the text presents facts as supportive evidence rather than dissociated pieces of information.
He is committed to an integrated, holistic anthropological approach. Fuentes wrote this text to help answer the “so what” questions and make anthropological knowledge relevant to everyday life.
A compendium of papers written expressly for this volume by a group of leading biological anthropologists. The second edition has been revised, updated, and increased in length to reflect recent developments.
This new edition of Biological Anthropology is evolutionary in perspective in the belief that evolution is the only unifying theory that can clearly explain the existing array of biological and cultural data.
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Biological Anthropology: The State of the Science
Biological Anthropology: Concepts and Connections
This volume provides an overview of biological anthropology, specifically in bioarchaeology, paleopathology, and forensic anthropology.
For undergraduate introductory physical anthropology, biological anthropology or human origins courses. The only book that integrates the foundations and the most current innovations in the field from the ground up....