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Robert Jurmain

Robert Jurmain (1948 – 2021) was an American physical anthropologist.

Jurmain earned an A.B. in anthropology from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Harvard. He joined the San Jose State faculty in 1975, and taught there until his retirement in 2004.

He is the co-author of several textbooks, including ''Introduction to Physical Anthropology'', that "...had an enormous impact on generations of students and scholars". In addition, his monograph ''Stories from the Skeleton: Behavioral Reconstruction in Human Osteology'' (Gordon and Breach, 1999, ) discusses the problem of determining what a person did, based only on markers in the person's bones such as fractures or evidence of osteoarthritis. Jurmain demonstrates that much past inference of this type has been based on flawed or circular reasoning, and instead argues that a more rigorous approach to this sort of research is called for. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Introduction to physical anthropology

    Introduction to physical anthropology by Jurmain, Robert

    Published 2010
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    Introduction to physical anthropology

    Introduction to physical anthropology by Jurmain, Robert, Kilgore, Lynn, Trevathan, Wenda

    Published 2005
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    Essentials of physical anthropology

    Essentials of physical anthropology by Jurmain, Robert, Bartelink, Eric J., Kilgore, Lynn, Trevathan, Wenda

    Published 2017
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    Introduction to physical anthropology

    Introduction to physical anthropology by Jurmain, Robert, Ciochon, Russell L., Kilgore, Lynn, Trevathan, Wenda

    Published 2014

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