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Introduction to Physical Anthropology
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Robert Jurmain
A comprehensive, well balanced introduction to the field of physical anthropology. Emphase in critical areas of biology including molecular biology and genetics, to reflect the field as it stands today.
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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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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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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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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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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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Angeloni
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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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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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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The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
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Hannah Holmes
"Stiff" meets "Your Inner Fish" in this surprising, humorous, and edifying description of Homo sapiens, as if humans were a newly-discovered animal.
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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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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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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
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Barry Lewis, Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore
This streamlined, full-color text is a thorough and well balanced introduction to the fields of physical anthropology and archaeology. Now with a new co-author, Barry Lewis brings his expertise in research methods and his experience with North American and South Indian archaeology to this edition. The author teams' conversational writing style and ...
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Physical Anthropology
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Philip L Stein
This introduction to physical anthropology places emphasis on three themes: that anthropology is a holistic discipline; that human beings are an integral part of nature; and that our maintenance of a balance with nature can be strengthened by an understanding of our evolutionary past.
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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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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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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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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 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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Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
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Carol R Ember, Melvin Ember, Peter N Peregrine
For introductory courses in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, or Physical Anthropology. With an emphasis on humans as both biological and cultural beings, this introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology features a focus on not only what humans are and were, but why they got to be that way. Based on a much expanded and updated ...
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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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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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Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions
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Walter Burkert
Sacrifice - ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued - is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason for these practices? Something that might explain why religions of so many different cultures share so many rituals and concepts? This book explores the possibility of ...
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Race Is a Four-Letter Word: The Genesis of the Concept
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C Loring Brace
This text is designed to be used as a supplementary text for any course in which the instructor wants to explore the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and how "race" grew to become accepted as something that virtually everyone regards as self-evident.
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The Meaning of Race: Race, History, and Culture in Western Society
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Kenan Malik
`Kenan Malik has done the almost impossible: written a clear and dispassionate book about a murky and passionate subject. He shows how the old errors and lies about race, class and genes have been reborn wearing a new disguise. If you believed The Bell Curve, this book will change your mind.' - Professor Steve Jones, author, The Language of The ...
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