Introduction to Physical Anthropology
by Jurmain, Robert; Kilgore, Lynn; Trevathan, WendaEdition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-14
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Jurmain's best-selling text provides you with the course content you need to help you pass your biological/physical anthropology course. Through clear discussions that move from 'description' to interpretation, compelling visual content, cutting-edge research, and interactive multimedia, you'll discover life's history and the place of human beings in the biological world.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Heredity and Evolution | |
| Introduction to Physical Anthropology | |
| The Development of Evolutionary Theory | |
| The Biological Basis of Life | |
| Heredity and Evolution | |
| Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution | |
| Primates | |
| An Overview of the Primates | |
| Fundamentals of Primate Behavior | |
| Models for Human Evolution | |
| Primate Evolution | |
| Hominid Evolution | |
| Paleoanthropology: Reconstructing Early Hominid Behavior and Ecology | |
| Hominid Origins in Africa | |
| The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries | |
| Pre-Modern Humans | |
| The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans | |
| Contemporary Human Evolution | |
| Human Biology: Patterns of Variation | |
| Human Biology: Patterns of Adaptation | |
| Legacies of Human Evolutionary History | |
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