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Essentials of Physical Anthropology
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Robert Jurmain
This volume covers basic evolutionary theory, human genetics, growth and development, non-human primates, paleoanthropology, and modern population biology to illustrate the physical and behavioural evolution of human beings.
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Introduction to Physical Anthropology
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Robert Jurmain
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY continues to present a comprehensive, well-balanced introduction to the field, combining an engaging writing style and compelling visual content to bring the study of physical anthropology to life for today's students. With a focus on the big picture of human evolution, the text helps students master the basic ...
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Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology
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Clark Spencer Larsen
With an unparalleled art programme, "Our Origins" is an accessible, up-to-date text that focuses on anthropology's big questions and the scientific process. A leader in the field and an experienced teacher, Clark Larsen focuses not on encyclopedic details but on the "big picture", getting students to see and think like anthropologists. Larsen ...
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Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials
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Craig Stanford, John S Allen, Susan C Anton
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 ...
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The Human Species: An Introduction to Biological Anthropology
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John H Relethford
A new introductory text that covers all the major topics of contemporary biological anthropology this emphasizes the relationship between biology and culture. The chapter covering genetic drift and gene flow uniquely focuses on human populations. Case studies of the Dunkers, rain forest Amerindians, and other groups make these abstract concepts ...
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Biological Anthropology
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Michael Alan Park
This concise introduction to biological anthropology discusses the core areas of the discipline within a unique framework modeled on the scientific method. The text emphasizes themes and theories: facts are presented as supportive evidence rather than dissociated pieces of information. Each chapter poses questions that get at the heart of the ...
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Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind
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Craig Stanford, John S Allen, Susan C Anton
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. Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly evolved from the study of physical anthropology into biological anthropology, ...
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Physical Anthropology
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Elvio Angeloni (Editor)
This fifteenth edition of "Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology" provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. The organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews ...
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Biological Anthropology: An Introductory Reader
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Michael Alan Park
This supplementary reader is composed of both historical and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions made by biological anthropology. With nearly a third of the selections focusing on living populations, the 42 articles cover the entire range of bioanthropological studies: evolution, nonhuman primates, human ...
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Lab Manual and Workbook for Physical Anthropology
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Diane France
Now in full color, Diane France's lab manual balances the study of human osteology, forensic anthropology, anthropometry, primates, human evolution, and genetics with a new chapter on growth & development, more material on disease and more on the anomalies of the human skeleton caused by disease and mechanical stress. Redundant and complex ...
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Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
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Kenneth L Feder, Michael Alan Park
Where did we come from? To answer this question, anthropologists reconstruct the human past and study the human present from both biological and cultural perspectives. "Human Antiquity" offers an absorbing, straightforward explanation of human origins and evolution by thoroughly integrating physical anthropology and archaeology. Co-authors Kenneth ...
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
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Terrence W Deacon
Drawing on the author's own breakthroughs in human and comparative neuroscience and evolutionary anthropology, and on the latest findings of research on artificial life and artificial intelligence, this book what it means to be human. This theory of the origin of language traces language development back to the primary needs of human family life.
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Two Eyes, a Nose and a Mouth
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Roberta Grobel Intrater
More than 100 vibrant, full-color photographs eloquently illustrate a wide variety of eyes, noses, and mouths on multigenerational, multicultural faces. A simple, rhyming text explores and celebrates our similarities and differences.
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The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist
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Mary H Manhein
In this professional memoir, a forensic scientist details how her daily detective work--studying bones to determine the cause of death--fascinates, disturbs, and inspires her.
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
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Steve Olson
A finalist for the National Book Award, this work follows 150,000 years of human history, tracing the origins of modern humans and the migration of our ancestors throughout the world. Maps throughout.
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Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge
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William A Haviland, Harald E L Prins, Dana Walrath
Explore evolution and prehistory through photos, examples, and anthropologists' studies with Haviland et al's "Evolution and Prehistory". The authors' goal in writing this book is to provide you with a vivid, accessible text that shows how the field is relevant to understanding the complex world around you. With Haviland et al, you will have the ...
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Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton
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Clark Spencer Larsen
Human remains recovered from archaeological sites can help us interpret lifetime events such as disease, physiological stress, injury and violent death, physical activity, tooth use, diet and demographic history of once-living populations. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of the emerging field of bioarchaeology. A central theme is the ...
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Humankind emerging
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Bernard Grant Campbell
The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to the field of human evolution. The ninth edition of Humankind Emerging tells the story of how, when, and why the human lineage developed from ape-grade ancestors. In Part I, Chapters 1 and 2 present a short history of the rise of evolutionary theory and the science of genetics, ...
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Anthropology
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Barbara D Miller, Bernard Wood
The first introductory anthropology text to present and integrate a four-field perspective, while simultaneously integrating important topics such as ethics, methods, gender, and race in all chapters. Due to an overwhelmingly positive response to this upcoming text, we are making Anthropology available for use in summer and fall 2005 classes ...
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Patterns of human growth
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Barry Bogin
This book presents an anthropological, evolutionary and biocultural perspective to the study and interpretation of human growth. Based on courses which Dr Bogin teaches to a mixture of medical, nutrition and anthropology students, the book provides a synthesis of the forces that shaped the evolution of the human growth pattern, the biocultural ...
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The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium
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Joseph L Graves
In this book Joseph L. Graves Jr traces the development of biological thought about human genetic diversity. Greek philosophy, social Darwinism, New World colonialism, the eugenics movement, intelligence testing biases and racial health fallacies are just a few of the topics he addresses. Graves argues that racism has persisted in our society ...
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Human Variation, Races, Types, and Ethnic Groups
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Stephen Molnar
For sophomore/junior-level courses in Human Evolution, Human Diversity, and Evolution, in departments of anthropology or biology. Discarding the concept of race as misleading, this text examines the biological basis for human variation and biological diversity at the population level--appropriate because of the many ways in which humans can adapt ...
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Humankind Emerging, the Concise Edition
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Bernard Grant Campbell, James D Loy
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Physical Anthropology
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Philip L Stein
Since the first edition of "Physical Anthropology, over a quarter century ago, Stein and Rowe have been helping to teach physical anthropology to tens of thousands of students. In this new edition, these award winning teachers and authors continue to share their love of discovery with students in this balanced, objective introduction to physical ...
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Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History
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Jonathan Marks
Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies - with a stereotypical humanist answering in the affirmative and a stereotypical scientist answering in the negative. The study of human biology is different from the study of the biology of other species ...
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