Introduction to physical anthropology
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Belmont, California :
Wadsworth Cengage Learning ,
c2014
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| Edition: | 2013-2014 ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to physical anthropology
- 2. The development of evolutionary theory
- 3. The biological basis of life
- 4. Heredity and evolution
- 5. Macroevolution: processes of vertebrate and mammalia evolution
- 6. Survey of the living primates
- 7. Primate behavior
- 8. Overview of the fossil primates
- 9. Paleoanthropology: reconstructing early hominin behavior and ecology
- 10. Hominin origins in Africa
- 11. The first dispersal of the genus homo: homo eractus and contemporaries
- 12. Premodern humans
- 13. The origin and dispersal of modern humans
- 14. Modern human biology: patterns of variation
- 15. Modern human biology: patterns of adaptation
- 16. Legacies of human evolutionary history and the human life course
- 17. The human disconnection