Nelson, Harry <br/><br/>
Essentials of physical anthropology / 
Harry Nelson, Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore. 
 - 352 pages ;   26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0314934405 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>Acc#36224 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN 60  / N331 1992