Exploring Biological Anthropology - The Essentials (4th Ed)
By Craig Stanford, John S. Allen, Susan C. Antón
Pearson | January 2016 | ISBN-10: 0134014014 | True PDF | 528 pages | 76 mb
https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Biological-Anthropology-Essentials-4th/dp/0134014014
Present a concise overview of biological anthropology, from early foundations to recent innovations
Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials combines concise coverage of the foundations of the field with modern innovations and discoveries, helping students understand, and get excited about, the discipline. Because the authors conduct research in three of the main areas of biological anthropology–the human fossil record (Susan Antón), primate behavior and ecology (Craig Stanford), and human biology and the brain (John Allen)–they offer a specialist approach that engages students and gives them everything they need to master the subject. The Fourth Edition continues to present traditional physical anthropology within a modern Darwinian framework, and includes coverage of contemporary discoveries to highlight the ever-increasing body of knowledge in biological anthropology.
About the Authors
Craig Stanford is a professor of anthropology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California, where he also co-directs the Jane Goodall Research Center. He has authored or coauthored more than 130 scientific publications. He and his wife, Erin Moore, a cultural anthropologist at USC, live in South Pasadena, California, and have three children.
John Allen is a research scientist in the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Indiana University.John and his wife, Stephanie Sheffield, have two sons, Reid and Perry.
Susan Antón is a professor in the Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology at New York University, where she also directs the M.A. program in Human Skeletal Biology. Her field research concerns the evolution of genus Homo in Indonesia and human impact on island ecosystems in the South Pacific. Susan and her husband, Carl Swisher, a geochronologist, raise Anatolian shepherd dogs.
CONTENTS
Preface xvii
About the Authors xxiii
Part I Foundations
1 What Is Biological Anthropology? 1
2 Origins of Evolutionary Thought 12
PART II Mechanisms of Evolution
3 Genetics: Cells and Molecules 30
4 Genetics: From Genotype to Phenotype 59
5 The Forces of Evolution and the Formation of Species 83
6 Human Variation: Evolution, Adaptation, and Adaptability 105
PART III Primates
7 The Primates 141
8 Primate Behavior 178
PART IV The Fossil Record
9 Geology and Primate Origins 200
10 Early Hominins and Australopithecus 242
11 Rise of the Genus Homo 277
12 Archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertals 309
13 The Emergence, Dispersal, and Bioarchaeology of Homo sapiens 342
PART V Biology and Behavior of Modern Humans
14 Evolution of the Brain and Behavior 373
15 Biomedical and Forensic Anthropology 402
Appendix A Primate and Human Comparative Anatomy 441
Appendix B The Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium 446
Appendix C Metric–Imperial Conversions 450
Glossary 451
Bibliogrphy 459
Credits 482
Index 487
