Overview of Biological Anthropology Book

Biological Anthropology, third edition is written to appeal to a wide range of students. It continues to build upon the strength and success of its first and second editions by integrating the foundations of the field with the most current innovations happening today. Over the past 40 years, biological anthropology has rapidly evolved from the study of physical anthropology into biological anthropology. Biological anthropology is now an integrative combination of information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics of individuals and of populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation and human behavior. The third edition of Biological Anthropology combines the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the foundations of the field with modern innovations and discoveries. Book Features: Biological Anthropology provides a specialist approach to each of the broad areas of biological anthropology that the text covers: primate behavior and ecology (Craig Stanford), human biology and the brain (John Allen) and the human fossil record (Susan Anton) Biological Anthropology frames questions about humankind in light of our understanding of culture and the ways in which culture interacts with biology, to create the template for human nature Biological Anthropology integrates traditional physical anthropology with a modern Darwinian framework - the theory of evolution by natural selection ? in every chapter Biological Anthropology covers the most current innovations in the field through its Innovations feature found in select chapters Biological Anthropology continues to include the most extensive discussion in any biological anthropology textbook of the geological background necessary for understanding human evolution, which has been updated to include the new cosmogenic radionuclide technique that is changing how we think about the age of fossils sites in non-volcanic contexts, such as Zhoukoudian and the South African cave sites

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Book Binding :

Paperback

Language :

English

Number of Pages :

648 pages

ISBN - 10 :

933255028X

Biological Anthropology Published On :

6-Jan-15

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