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Physical Anthropology: Original Readings in Method and Practice

By Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, Melvin R Ember

ISBN-10: 0-13-093979-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-093979-1What's this?

Published by Prentice Hall

Pub. Date: Nov 30, 2001

Format: Paper

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Introduction by P.N. Peregrine, C.R. Ember, and M. Ember.

I. EVOLUTION.

 1. Evolutionary Genetics, R. Eckhardt.

 2. Genes, Bodies, and Species, J. Marks.

 3. Paleoanthropology and Evolutionary Theory, I. Tattersall.

II. PRIMATE EVOLUTION.

 4. Explaining Primate Origins, M. Cartmill.

 5. Why Are Primates So Smart?, J. Silk and R. Boyd.

 6. Miocene Apes, D. Begun.

 7. Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior and Human Evolution, C. Stanford.

III. HUMAN EVOLUTION.

 8. Australopithecus Afarensis and Human Evolution, S. Simpson.

 9. “ Robust” Australopithecines, Our Family Tree, and Homoplasy, H. McHenry.

10. The Natural History and Evolutionary Fate of Homo Erectus, A. Kramer.

11. Neandertal Growth: Examining Developmental Adaptations in Earlier Homo Sapiens, N. Minugh-Purvis.

12. Testing Theories and Hypothesis about Modern Human Origins, D. Frayer.

IV. MODERN HUMAN VARIATION.

13. Natural Variation in Human Fecundity, P. Ellison.

14. What Accounts for Population Variation in Height?, J.P. Gray and L. Wolfe.

15. Growth and Development of Turkana Pastoralists, M. Little.

16. The Concept of Race in Physical Anthropology, C.L. Brace.

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT WORK.

17. Paleoanthropology and Life History, and Life History of a Paleoanthropologist, T. Bromage.

18. The Evolution of a Physical Anthropologist, K. Milton.

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