"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, was actually a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon ...
In this work, leading anthropologist Noel T. Boaz describes how innovative research techniques have transformed our understanding of our earliest human ancestors. By telling the story of his own 20-year quest for the missing link in northern and eastern Africa, Boaz shows how palaeo-anthropology no longer focuses exclusively on individual fossil ...
For the introductory physical or biological anthropology course taught in anthropology or biology departments. 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. Students learn the basics of ...
For the one-term physical or biological anthropology course taught at the freshman/sophomore level in anthropology and/or biology departments at two-and four-year schools. Its brief coverage of all of the key concepts taught in this course allows professors to more easily assign supplementary materials. This new essentials version of Boaz ...
Looking to the past for a healthier future, "Evolving Health" introduces the fascinating findings in the new field of research known as evolutionary medicine. A biological anthropologist on human evolution, Noel Boaz explains the surprising origins of cancer, heart disease, ulcers, and many other conditions with remarkable insight and detail. ...
This volume argues that the ecological and environmental changes that may have occurred at the same time may have been the vital cause of the evolution from ape to modern human. It offers theories as how the evolution of the gorilla may be tied to a long period of global cooling; how the drying up of the Mediterranean may have decreased the ...
Did you ever wonder why people walk upright? Why we have such big brains? Why some people have dark skin and some have light? Why our early ancestors ever left Africa and started wandering over the globe? And perhaps even why we, with all our technological sophistication, still like to barbecue raw meat over an open fire? This book is about the ...
In addition to providing an update for practicing physical anthropologists, this volume serves as an appropriate text for upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in physical anthropology. The second edition has added new chapters on early primate evolution, the Pleistocene human fossil record, statistics, and dental anthropology. Written ...
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