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| 040 | _cPhilippine Baptist Theological Seminary | ||
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_aGN 60 _bN331 1992 |
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| 100 | 1 | 0 | _aNelson, Harry |
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_aEssentials of physical anthropology / _cHarry Nelson, Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore. |
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_aSt. Paul, MN : _bWest Publishing Company, _c©1992. |
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_a352 pages ; _c26 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | _aCHAPTER 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 -PHOTO ESSAY - 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? | ||
| 650 | _aPHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY | ||
| 700 | 1 | _aRobert Jurmain | |
| 700 | 1 | _aLynn Kilgore | |
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