Introduction to physical anthropology /
Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan, Russell L.Ciochon, Eric J. Bartelink.
- Fifteenth edition Student edition
- Boston : Cengage Learning, c2018.
- xvii, 576 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographic references (pages 531-556) and index.
Introduction to physical anthropology -- Heredity and evolution -- The development of evolutionary theory -- The biological basis of life -- Heredity and evolution -- Macroevolution: processes of vertebrate and mammalian evolution -- Primates -- Survey of the living primates -- Primate behavior -- Overview of the fossil primates -- Hominin evolution -- Paleoanthropology: reconstructing early hominin behavior and ecology -- Hominin origins in Africa The first dispersal of the genus homo: homo erectus and contemporaries -- Premodern humans -- The origin and dispersal of modern humans -- Contemporary human evolution -- Modern human biology: patterns of variation -- Modern human biology: patterns of adaptation -- Legacies of human evolutionary history: effects on the life course -- The human disconnection -- Appendix A: Atlas of Primate skeletal anatomy -- Appendix B: Sexing and aging the skeleton.