Includes bibliographical references and index.

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
- What is anthropology
- The biocultural approach
- What is phsical anthopology
- What is human?
- The scientific approach
- Summary
- Questions for review

CHAPTER 2. DARWIN AND NATURAL SELECTION
- Introduction
- Darwin's life
- Darwin's theory of evolution
- The path to natural selection
- The scientific revolution: Linnaeus, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, Cuvier, Lyell, Malthus
- Natural selection in action
- Darwin's failures
- Summary
- Questions for review

CHAPTER 3. THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF LIFE
- Introduction
- The cell
- DNA Structure
- DNA Replication
- Protein synthesis
- Cell division: Mitosis and Meiosis
- Summary
- Questions for review

CHAPTER 4. PRINCIPLES OF INHERITANCE
- Introduction
- Gregor Mendel's experiments with garden peas
- Mendelian inheritance in humans
- Polygenic inheritance
- Genetic and environmental factors
- Summary
- Questions for review

PHOTO ESSAY
THE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

CHAPTER 5. HUMAN DIVERSITY: THE CONCEPT OF RACE
- Introduction
- The concept of race
- Historical views toward human variation
- The problems of typological approaches to racial taxonomy
- The adaptive significance of human variation
- Clinal distribution of traits
- Race and behavior
- Summary
- Questions for review

CHAPTER 6. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS OF HUMAN VARIATION
- Introduction
- The modern theory of evolution
- Definition of evolution
- Evolution in action-modern human populations
- HUman biocultural evolution
- Human Polymorphisms
- Multivariate population genetics
- Summary
- Questions for review

CHAPTER 7. MAMMALIAN/PRIMATE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
- Introduction
- The human place in the organic world
- Taxonomy
- Time scale
- Vertebrate evolutionary history - a brief summary
- Mammalian evolution
- Major Mammalian groups
- Primates
- Major primate groups
- The Arboreal adaptation
- Early primate evolution
- Miocene fossil Hominoids
- Modes of evolutionary change
- The meaning of Genus and species
- Summary
- Question for review

CHAPTER 8. AN OVERVIEW OF THE LIVING PRIMATES
- Characteristics of primates
- Primate classification

CHAPTER 9. PRIMATE BEHAVIOR
- The importance of primate studies
- Primate socioecology
- Sociobiology
- Primate social behavior
- Primate cognitive abilities
- The primate continuum
- Primate conservation

- PHOTO ESSAY
- PRIMATE STUDIES: FREE-RANGING AND CAPTIVE RESEARCH

CHAPTER 10. HOMINID ORIGINS
- Definition of Hominid
- Paleoanthropology as a multidisciplinary science
- Dating methods
- The east African rift valley
- East African Hominid sites
- South African sites
- The Bipedal adaptation

CHAPTER 11. EARLY HOMINIDS: ORGANIZATION AND INTERPRETATION
- Early primitive Australopithecines
- Later Australopithecines - "Robust" forms
- Later Australopithecines - "Gracile" forms
- Early Homo
- Interpretation: what does it all mean?
- Continuing uncertainties -taxonomic issues
- Putting it all together

CHAPTER 12. HOMO ERECTUS
- The Pleistocene (1.8 mya-10,000 ya)
- Homo erectus
- Asia
- East Africa
- Human emergence: Australopithecus to Homo Erectus

CHAPTER 13. HOMO SAPIENS
- Archaic forms: Archaic Sapiens
- Middle Pleistocene evolution
- Middle Pleistocene culture
- Neandertals (125-30 kya)
- Upper Pleistocene
- Neandertal beginnings
- Neandertals meet moderns
- Middle paleolithic culture
- Late Archaic or early moderns
- Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Anatomically modern humans)
- Human achievement in the Upper Paleolithic
- Summary of upper paleolithic
- The new world

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- PALEOPATHOLOGY: DISEASES AND INJURIES OF BONE

CHAPTER 14. LESSONS FROMT HE PAST, LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE
- The biological continuum
- Biological diversity
- Humans and the impact of culture
- Cultural diversity- a treasure rapidly disappearing
- Could the human species become extinct?
- The present crisis: our cultural heritage?