Biological anthropology (2° ed )

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. The basics of anthropological theory and human genetics are introduced before the topics of vertebrate evolution, primate evolution and social behavior, human evolution and behavior, and human variation and adaptation. In each section, behavior, morphology, adaptation, and ecology are discussed to provide the comparative basis for human origins. KEY TOPICS: Includes expanded sections on genetics, with a new chapter on classic genetics (Ch. 2), and a new chapter on Darwinian evolution (Ch. 3), a new chapter on the living primates, their distribution and anatomical adaptations (Ch. 7), an expanded section on Homo, including a new chapter on Homo sapiens sapiens, and a new chapter on hominoid and human behavior (Ch. 13), which combines the evolution of hominoid behavior and the evolution of human social behavior. MARKET:

(NOTE: Each chapter contains a Summary, Critical Thinking Questions, Internet Exercises, and Media Lab.) 1. Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Biology and Behavior. 2. Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. 3. Genetics. 4. Population, Species, and Evolution. 5. Stages of Vertebrate Evolution. 6. Primate Evolution. 7. Primates of the New and Old Worlds. 8. Primates: Patterns in Social Behavior. 9. Introduction to the Hominoids. 10. The Australopithecines. 11. The Genus Homo. 12. Homo sapiens. 13. The Hominoids: Studies of Ape and Human Behavior. 14. Human Biology and Variation. 15. The Human Life Cycle: Human Biology, Growth, and Adaptability. 16. Humans in Evolutionary Perspective: Applied Biological Anthropology. Appendix 1. The Language of Biological Anthropology: Human Anatomy. Appendix 2. The Language of Biological Anthropology: Geology. Appendix 3. The Language of Biological Anthropology: Biology and Taxonomy. Appendix 4. Dating Methods in Paleoanthropology. Glossary. References. Illustration Credits. Index.