Essentials of physical anthropology / (Record no. 15945)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | Acc#36224 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0314934405 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary |
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| Classification number | GN 60 |
| Item number | N331 1992 |
| 100 10 - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nelson, Harry |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Essentials of physical anthropology / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Harry Nelson, Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore. |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | St. Paul, MN : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | West Publishing Company, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©1992. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 352 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 26 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION <br/>- What is anthropology <br/>- The biocultural approach <br/>- What is phsical anthopology<br/>- What is human?<br/>- The scientific approach <br/>- Summary <br/>- Questions for review <br/><br/>CHAPTER 2. DARWIN AND NATURAL SELECTION<br/>- Introduction <br/>- Darwin's life<br/>- Darwin's theory of evolution <br/>- The path to natural selection <br/>- The scientific revolution: Linnaeus, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, Cuvier, Lyell, Malthus<br/>- Natural selection in action <br/>- Darwin's failures<br/>- Summary <br/>- Questions for review <br/><br/>CHAPTER 3. THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF LIFE <br/>- Introduction <br/>- The cell <br/>- DNA Structure <br/>- DNA Replication <br/>- Protein synthesis <br/>- Cell division: Mitosis and Meiosis<br/>- Summary <br/>- Questions for review <br/><br/>CHAPTER 4. PRINCIPLES OF INHERITANCE <br/>- Introduction <br/>- Gregor Mendel's experiments with garden peas<br/>- Mendelian inheritance in humans<br/>- Polygenic inheritance <br/>- Genetic and environmental factors <br/>- Summary <br/>- Questions for review <br/><br/>PHOTO ESSAY <br/>THE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY <br/><br/>CHAPTER 5. HUMAN DIVERSITY: THE CONCEPT OF RACE <br/>- Introduction <br/>- The concept of race<br/>- Historical views toward human variation <br/>- The problems of typological approaches to racial taxonomy <br/>- The adaptive significance of human variation <br/>- Clinal distribution of traits <br/>- Race and behavior <br/>- Summary <br/>- Questions for review <br/><br/>CHAPTER 6. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS OF HUMAN VARIATION <br/>- Introduction <br/>- The modern theory of evolution<br/>- Definition of evolution <br/>- Evolution in action-modern human populations <br/>- HUman biocultural evolution <br/>- Human Polymorphisms <br/>- Multivariate population genetics <br/>- Summary <br/>- Questions for review<br/><br/>CHAPTER 7. MAMMALIAN/PRIMATE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY <br/>- Introduction <br/>- The human place in the organic world <br/>- Taxonomy <br/>- Time scale <br/>- Vertebrate evolutionary history - a brief summary <br/>- Mammalian evolution <br/>- Major Mammalian groups <br/>- Primates <br/>- Major primate groups <br/>- The Arboreal adaptation <br/>- Early primate evolution <br/>- Miocene fossil Hominoids <br/>- Modes of evolutionary change <br/>- The meaning of Genus and species<br/>- Summary <br/>- Question for review <br/><br/>CHAPTER 8. AN OVERVIEW OF THE LIVING PRIMATES <br/>- Characteristics of primates <br/>- Primate classification <br/><br/>CHAPTER 9. PRIMATE BEHAVIOR <br/>- The importance of primate studies <br/>- Primate socioecology <br/>- Sociobiology <br/>- Primate social behavior <br/>- Primate cognitive abilities <br/>- The primate continuum <br/>- Primate conservation <br/><br/>- PHOTO ESSAY<br/>- PRIMATE STUDIES: FREE-RANGING AND CAPTIVE RESEARCH<br/><br/>CHAPTER 10. HOMINID ORIGINS <br/>- Definition of Hominid<br/>- Paleoanthropology as a multidisciplinary science <br/>- Dating methods <br/>- The east African rift valley<br/>- East African Hominid sites <br/>- South African sites <br/>- The Bipedal adaptation <br/><br/>CHAPTER 11. EARLY HOMINIDS: ORGANIZATION AND INTERPRETATION <br/>- Early primitive Australopithecines<br/>- Later Australopithecines - "Robust" forms <br/>- Later Australopithecines - "Gracile" forms<br/>- Early Homo <br/>- Interpretation: what does it all mean?<br/>- Continuing uncertainties -taxonomic issues <br/>- Putting it all together<br/><br/>CHAPTER 12. HOMO ERECTUS <br/>- The Pleistocene (1.8 mya-10,000 ya)<br/>- Homo erectus <br/>- Asia <br/>- East Africa<br/>- Human emergence: Australopithecus to Homo Erectus<br/><br/>CHAPTER 13. HOMO SAPIENS <br/>- Archaic forms: Archaic Sapiens <br/>- Middle Pleistocene evolution <br/>- Middle Pleistocene culture <br/>- Neandertals (125-30 kya)<br/>- Upper Pleistocene<br/>- Neandertal beginnings<br/>- Neandertals meet moderns<br/>- Middle paleolithic culture <br/>- Late Archaic or early moderns <br/>- Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Anatomically modern humans)<br/>- Human achievement in the Upper Paleolithic <br/>- Summary of upper paleolithic <br/>- The new world<br/><br/>-PHOTO ESSAY <br/>- PALEOPATHOLOGY: DISEASES AND INJURIES OF BONE<br/><br/>CHAPTER 14. LESSONS FROMT HE PAST, LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE<br/>- The biological continuum <br/>- Biological diversity <br/>- Humans and the impact of culture <br/>- Cultural diversity- a treasure rapidly disappearing <br/>- Could the human species become extinct?<br/>- The present crisis: our cultural heritage?<br/><br/> |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Robert Jurmain |
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| Personal name | Lynn Kilgore |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | PBTS Library | PBTS Library | Circulation Section | 03/20/2006 | 15.00 | GN 60 N331 1992 | 36224 | 03/09/2026 | 04/02/2015 | Circulation Books |