A companion to biological anthropology. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Clark Spencer Larsen.
• Editors: Larsen, Clark Spencer
• Contents: The breadth and vision of biological anthropology / Clark Spencer Larsen -- Foundation and history of biological anthropology / Michael A. Little and Jane E. Buikstra -- Evolution : what it means and how we know / Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan -- Systematics, taxonomy, and phylogenetics : ordering life, past and present / Alexis Uluutku and Bernard Wood -- Diversity, ancestry, and evolution : the genetics of human populations / John H. Relethford -- Human population genomics : diversity and adaptation / Dennis H. O'Rourke -- Race, racism, and racial thinking : implications for biological anthropology / Rachel Caspari -- Human life history evolution : growth, development, and senescence / Douglas E. Crews and Barry Bogin -- Climate-related human biological variation / Cynthia M. Beall -- Infectious disease and epidemiology : dealing with the present and preparing for future new epidemics / Lisa Sattenspiel and Carolyn Orbann -- Evolutionary insights into the social and environmental drivers of health inequality : the example of the global epidemic of overweight and cardiovascular diseases / Christopher W. Kuzawa and Melissa B. Manus -- Ancient DNA and disease / Anne Stone -- Paleogenomics : ancient DNA in biological anthropology / C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim -- Demography, including paleodemography / Lyle W. Konigsberg George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen -- Nutritional anthropology : contemporary themes in food, diet, and nutrition / Darna L. Dufour and Barbara A. Piperata -- Ongoing evolution : are we still evolving? / Fabian Crespo -- Primates defined / W. Scott McGraw -- Primate behavior, social flexibility, and conservation / Karen B. Strier -- Behavioral ecology : background and illustrative example / James F. O'Connell and Kristen Hawkes -- Brain, cognition, and behavior in humans and other primates / Elaine N. Miller and Chet C. Sherwood -- Taphonomy and biological anthropology / Luis L. Cabo, Dennis C. Dirkmaat, and Andrea M. Zurek-Ost -- Primate origins : the earliest primates and euprimates and their role in the evolution of the order / Mary T. Silcox and Sergi López-Torres -- Catarrhine Origins and Evolution / David R. Begun -- The human journey begins : origins and diversity in early hominins / Scott W. Simpson -- Early Homo : systematics, paleobiology, and the first out-of-Africa dispersals / G. Philip Rightmire -- Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene human dubspecies : the genetic/genomic revolution in paleoanthropology / Fred H. Smith and Whitney M. Karriger -- Bioarchaeology : transformations in lifestyle, morbidity, and mortality / George R. Milner and Clark Spencer Larsen -- Paleopathology : a twenty-first century perspective / Jane E. Buikstra -- Forensic anthropology : current issues / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Diet reconstruction and ecology / Margaret J. Schoeninger and Laurie J. Reitsema -- Current concepts in bone biology / Mary E. Cole, James H. Gosman, and Samuel D. Stout -- Deducing attributes of dental growth and development from fossil hominin teeth / Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg -- Skull : function--new directions / Qian Wang and Rachel A. Menegaz -- Dental microwear analysis : wear we are going, wear we have been / Christopher W. Schmidt and Peter S. Ungar -- Primate locomotion : a comparative and developmental perspective / Michael C. Granatosky and Jesse W. Young -- Teaching biological anthropology : pedagogy of human evolution and human variation / Briana Pobiner.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
• Publication Date: 2023
• Copyright Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 640 pages), illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 599.9; 573; Physical anthropology; Physical anthropology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119828075; 1119828074; 9781119828068; 1119828066; 9781119828051; 1119828058
• Related ISBNs: 9781119828044; 111982804X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 22, 2023).
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