Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (May 1, 2019) © 2017

  • Craig Stanford University of Southern California
  • John S. Allen
  • Susan C. Anton New York University
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Exploring Biological Anthropology combines basic concepts with modern innovations and discoveries. Taking a specialist approach, it explores research in three of the main areas of biological anthropology: the human fossil record, primate behavior and ecology, and human biology and the brain.

PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1. What Is Biological Anthropology?
2. Origins of Evolutionary Thought

PART II: MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTION
3. Genetics: Cells and Molecules
4. Genetics: From Genotype to Phenotype
5. The Forces of Evolution and the Formation of Species
6. Human Variation: Evolution, Adaptation, and Adaptability

PART III: PRIMATES
7. The Primates
8. Primate Behavior

PART IV: THE FOSSIL RECORD
9. Geology and Primate Origins
10. Early Hominins and Australopithecus
11. Rise of the Genus Homo
12. Archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertals
13. The Emergence, Dispersal, and Bioarchaeology of Homo sapiens

PART V: BIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF MODERN HUMANS
14. Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
15. Biomedical and Forensic Anthropology

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