Jurmain, Robert

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.


9781337099820 (paperback)

2016947229


Physical anthropology--Textbooks

GN60 / J97 2018