- Title: Subtitle
- Introduction to physical anthropology
- Creators
- Robert Jurmain - San Jose State UniversityLynn Kilgore - University of Colorado BoulderWenda Trevathan - New Mexico State UniversityRussell L Ciochon - University of Iowa, AnthropologyEric J Bartelink
- Resource Type
- Book
- Edition
- 15th edition
- Table of contents
- Connecting the Dots through Time: Paleoanthropological Dating Methods; Aping Monkeys; The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans; Burials; Summary of Main Topics; A Closer Look Cranial Capacity; Primate Characteristics; Genetic Drift and Founder Effect; Public Perceptions of Climate Change; Surprising Connections: Another Contemporary Hominin?; At a Glance Key Fossil Ape Names; Using Cladistics to Interpret Organisms; Solar Radiation and Skin Color; Anthropoids: Monkeys, Apes, and Humans; The Genetic Principles Discovered by Mendel; Closer Connections to Living Primates: The Evolution of True Lemurs and Lorises; The Human Disconnection; A Closer Look Major Features of Bipedal Locomotion; Mothers, Fathers, and Infants; Hominin Origins in Africa; The African Great Apes; Africa; The First Homo erectus: Homo erectus from Africa; Summary of Upper Paleolithic Culture; Modern Human Biology: Patterns of Variation; Independent Assortment; Pleiotropy; Polymorphisms at the DNA Level; Seeing Close Human Connections: Understanding Diversity among Premodern Humans; At a Glance Key Homo erectus Discoveries from Africa; A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought; True Apes; At a Glance Genetic Polymorphisms Used to Study Human Variation; At a Glance Key Early Primate Names; Discovering Human Evolution: The Science of Paleoanthropology; Diet and Teeth; Definition of Species; What Is Anthropology?; A Closer Look Primate Cranial Anatomy; Humans and the Impact of Culture; Reproduction and Reproductive Behaviors; Modern Human Biology: Patterns of Adaptation; Recognition of Fossil Genera; A Closer Look Are They Human?; Walking the Walk: The Bipedal Adaptation; The development of Evolutionary theory; Is There Any Good News?; Communication; Conflict between Groups; Pre-Australopiths (6.01 to 4.4 mya); Natural Selection Is Directional and Acts on Variation; Later Homo erectus from Europe; Premodern Humans of the Middle Pleistocene; Heredity and Evolution; Hominin Evolution; Other Factors Influencing Growth and Development: Genes, Environment, and Hormones; Human Biocultural Evolution; True Anthropoids; Historical Views of Human Variation; Primate Behavior; Sexing and Aging the Skeleton; Locomotion; Evolution of Extant Hominoids; Physical Anthropology and the Scientific Method; Onset of Reproductive Function in Humans; Contemporary Interpretations of Human Variation; Nonhuman Primate Models for the Evolution of Human Behavior; Dentition and Diet; Molecular Connections: The Genetic Evidence; Approaches to Understanding Modern Human Origins; Australia; Lemurs and Lorises; A Contemporaneous and Very Different Kind of Hominin; A Closer Look Types of Nonhuman Primate Social Groups; A Closer Look Calculating Allele Frequencies: PTC Tasting in a Hypothetical Population; Non-Mendelian Inheritance; A Closer Look Aye-Ayes: Victims of Derived Traits and Superstition; How We Connect: Discovering the Place of Humans in the Natural World; Primate Classification; Primate Cultural Behavior; Stone Tool (Lithic) Technology; At a Glance Primate Social Strategies; Infectious Disease; Biocultural Evolution and the Life Course; Index; Natural Selection in Action; The Evolution of Behavior; At a Glance Key Early Modern Homo sapiens Discoveries from Europe and Asia; A Closer Look The Evolution of Language; Western Asia; Applied Anthropology; Too Much and Too Little; Homo erectus from China; The Primate Continuum; Appendix B; Appendix A; A Brief History of Opposition to Evolution in the United States; Mitochondrial Inheritance; Neandertal DNA; The Concept of Race; Natural Selection and Reproductive Success; A Closer Look Dragon Bone Hill: Cave Home or Hyena Den?; Gene Flow; Eocene Euprimates; At a Glance Key Premodern Human (H. heidelbergensis) Fossils from Africa; Primate Adaptations; Meiosis; The Modern Synthesis; The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries; Evolutionary Factors; Factors That Produce and Redistribute Variation; Regulatory Genes; Processes of Macroevolution; Glossary; At a Glance Key Neandertal Fossil Discoveries; Is Infanticide a Reproductive Strategy?; Precursors of the Theory of Evolution; The Senses and the Brain; Lemur Connections? The Adapoids; Review of Genetics and Evolutionary Factors; Survey of the Living Primates; At a Glance Key Premodern Human (H. heidelbergensis) Fossils from Asia; A Closer Look Deep Time; Tarsiers; Who Were the Earliest African Emigrants?; Altruism; Aging and Longevity; Generalized and Specialized Characteristics; Homo erectus from Indonesia; Cultural Anthropology; At a Glance Population Genetics Research; Language; Impact on Biodiversity; At a Glance Key Homo erectus Discoveries from Asia; Speech and Symbolic Behavior; The Adaptive Significance of Human Variation; Oligocene Primates; Neandertals: Premodern Humans of the Late Pleistocene; New Frontiers; Misconceptions about Dominance and Recessiveness; Introduction to Physical Anthropology; The Scientific Revolution; Protein Synthesis; Reconstruction of Early Hominin Environments and Behavior; Brain Size; The Geographic Range of Homo erectus; At a Glance The Mechanism of Natural Selection; Middle Pleistocene Hominins: Terminology; Recognition of Fossil Species; Premodern Humans; Human Impacts on the Planet and on Other Life-Forms; Cells; A Closer Look Racial Purity: A False and Dangerous Ideology; Aggressive and Affiliative Behaviors within Groups; Biocultural Evolution: The Human Capacity for Culture; Asia; Eocene and Oligocene Early Anthropoids; Working Together: Microevolution and Macroevolution; The Mechanics of Walking on Two Legs; Dominance and Recessiveness; A Closer Look What Were Early Hominins Doing, and How Do We Know?; At a Glance Key Early Anthropoid Names; Sexual Selection; A Survey of the Living Nonhuman Primates; Calculating Allele Frequencies; Segregation; Something New and Different: The “Little People”; Diet and Nutrition through the Life Course; Principles of Classification; At a Glance Genetic Relationships among Modern Humans, Denisovans, and Neandertals; Why Did Hominins Become Bipedal?; Evolution in Action: Modern Human Populations; The Near East; The Biological Basis of Life; Prosocial Behaviors: Affiliation, Altruism, and Cooperation; Acknowledgments; Are We Still Evolving?; Made to Order: Archaic Primates; At a Glance Zoonoses and Human Infectious Disease; Hylobatids: The Lesser Apes; The Continuing Impact of Infectious Disease; Humans Are Vertebrates: Distant Connections through Geological Time; Modern Evolutionary Theory; Chromosomes; Primate Social Behavior; Seeing the Big Picture: Adaptive Patterns of Early African Hominins; The Morphology of Homo erectus; Mutation: When Genes Change; Australopiths (4.2 to 1.2 mya); Asian and African Homo erectus: A Comparison; In Darwin's Shadow; Body Size; At a Glance Comparing Two Approaches to Interpretation of Evolutionary Relationships; Making Connections: Constructing Classifications and Interpreting Evolutionary Relationships; At a Glance Scenarios of Modern Human Origins; Central Asia; Contents; A New Kind of Hominin; Constraints on Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory; Understanding Our Direct Evolutionary Connections: What's a Hominin?; When, Where, and What; What Is a Gene?; A Current Definition of Evolution; High Altitude; A Closer Look Evo-Devo: The Evolution Revolution; A Closer Look Forensic Anthropology in Practice; A Closer Look Skin Cancer and UV Radiation; Adaptive Radiation; Dispersal of Middle Pleistocene Hominins; Mitosis; Overview of the Fossil Primates; Human Skeletal Biology: What Bones Can Tell Us about Ancient Diseases, Trauma, and Lifestyles; Cranial Shape; How Do We Know?; Decline in Reproductive Function; Archaeology; A Closer Look What DNA Tells Us about Ancient Human Migrations; Chapter 8; Replacement Models; The Anthropological Perspective; DNA Structure; Cell Division; A Closer Look Island Hopping and Primate Evolution; Digging for Connections: Early Hominins from Africa; Natural Selection; Preface; Technology and Art in the Upper Paleolithic; Seeing the Connections: Interpretations of Homo erectus; Experimental Archaeology; Chapter; At a Glance Mendelian vs. Polygenic Traits; DNA Replication; Paleoanthropology: Reconstructing Early Hominin Behavior and Ecology; Central Europe; Supplements; The Earliest Discoveries of Modern Humans; Analysis of Bone; Physical Anthropology; The Discovery of Natural Selection; Contemporary Human Evolution; Evolution of True Tarsiers; At a Glance Key Pre-Australopith Discoveries; Asia's Lone Great Ape; A Closer Look Primate Diversity in the Fayum; What's in a Name?; A Closer Look Rosalind Franklin: The Fourth (but Invisible) Member of the Double Helix Team; An Example of Cladistic Analysis: The Evolutionary History of Cars and Trucks; At a Glance Evolution of Human Language; New Connections: A Transitional Australopith?; Primate Origins; Early Platyrrhines: New World Anthropoids; Monkeying Around; Maturation, Learning, and Behavior; Technology; Critical Thinking Questions; Genetic and Environmental Factors; The Bushmeat Trade; At a Glance Diet, Lifestyle, and Consequences; A Review of Middle Pleistocene Evolution; What Are Fossils and How Do They Form?; A Closer Look Maybe You Can Take It with You; Europe; Linguistic Anthropology; Human Polymorphisms; Dominance; At a Glance Key Homo erectus and Contemporaneous Discoveries from Europe and Western Asia; At a Glance Key Early Modern Homo sapiens Discoveries from Africa and the Near East; Western Europe; Opposition to Evolution Today; Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution; Evidence of Prehistoric Diseases; From DNA to Protein; Global Climate Change; Mendelian Inheritance in Humans; Mutation; Biocultural Evolution; Atlas of Primate Skeletal Anatomy; The Evolution of Language; Brain and Body Size; Technological Trends During the Time of Homo erectus; Earth's Shrinking Polar Ice; A New Hominin Discovery in South Africa; A Closer Look Noncoding DNA—Not Junk After All; A Closer Look Chronometric Dating Estimates; Pregnancy, Birth, Infancy, and Childhood; Interpreting Species and Other Groups in the Fossil Record; Comparing Evolutionary Systematics with Cladistics; Hominoids: Apes and Humans; The Pleistocene; Some Factors That Influence Social Structure; Interpretations: What Does It All Mean?; Culture of Neandertals; Life History Theory and the Human Life Course; Middle Pleistocene Culture; Primates; Background to Primate Evolution: Late Mesozoic; Geographical Distribution and Habitats; Acceleration of Evolutionary Processes; Endangered Primates; Closer Connections: Early Homo (2.0 to 1.4 mya); The Human Connection; A Closer Look Building Family Trees from Genes; Patterns of Mendelian Inheritance; Humans Are Also Mammals: Closer Connections; Why Be Social?; Limbs and Locomotion; The Regional Continuity Model: Multiregional Evolution; Karyotyping Chromosomes; At a Glance Key Premodern Human (H. heidelbergensis) Fossils from Europe; Subsistence; Tarsier Connections? The Omomyoids; Miocene Primates; Reproductive Strategies; Reconstruction of Prehistoric Behavioral Patterns; Legacies of Human Evolutionary History: Effects on the Life course; The Thermal Environment; Evolved Biology and Contemporary Lifestyles—Is There a Mismatch?; References; Polygenic Inheritance; Population Genetics; Later More Derived Australopiths (3.0 to 1.2 mya); A Closer Look In Search of Ancient Human Ancestors—and a Little Shade; At a Glance Coding and Noncoding DNA; Looking for Solutions
- ISBN
- 9781337099820; 9781337115698; 1337099821; 133711569X
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning; Boston, MA
- Number of pages
- xvii, 576 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; Pediatric Dentistry
- Record Identifier
- 9983816896802771
Book
Introduction to physical anthropology
Cengage Learning, 15th edition
2018
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