Full Description
Concise, well-balanced, and comprehensive, PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, 9E, International Edition introduces you to physical anthropology with the goal of helping you understand why it is important to know about human evolution. With a new framework that emphasizes 'connections', the reader is shown how humans are biologically connected to all other life, including our distant ancestors and our contemporary primate cousins, as well as how closely modern human populations are related to each other. Supported by new chapter-opening visual diagrams, a completely new art and map program, outstanding visual photographs and Photo Essays, as well as pedagogy such as "What's Important" boxes that put key chapter concepts into perspective for students, this text continues to help students master basic biological principles of physical anthropology and so be able to better understand human origins and our place in the biological world. Altogether, PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, 9E, International Edition integrates coverage of the latest fossil finds with relevant technologies to be the most up-to-date text available.
Contents
1. Introduction to Physical Anthropology.
2. The Development of Evolutionary Theory.
3. The Biological Basis of Life.
4. Heredity and Evolution.
5. Modern Human Biology: Patterns of Variation and Adaptation.
6. Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution.
7. Survey of the Living Primates.
8. Primate Behavior.
9. Primate and Hominin Origins.
10. The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries.
11. Premodern Humans.
12. The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans.
13. The Anthropological Perspective on the Human Life Course.
14. Legacies of Human Evolutionary History: Effects on the Individual.
