Best-selling PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, 9E, Int. ed., presents a concise and authoritative introduction to physical anthropology with the goal of helping students understand why it is important to know about human evolution by showing how humans are biologically connected to all other life. These biological connections link our species with our ancient ancestors, our contemporary primate cousins, and show how closely modern human populations are related to each other. The text has been reframed to emphasize this theme of biological connections as well as the connections between chapters in the material presented. This new framework will better help students grasp the big picture of human evolution and better navigate the material. Supported by new chapter opening Learning Objectives, new visual diagrams (see Chapter One)and other summation pedagogy such as "What's Important" boxes that put key chapter conceptsinto 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, Int. ed. integrates coverage of the latest finds with relevant technologies to be the most up-to-date text available. INDICE: 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-111-83815-7
- Editorial: South Western
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha Publicación: 10/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés