Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook and Laboratory Manual for Introductory Courses, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (11 August 2014) © 2015

  • Samantha M. Hens California State University-Sacramento
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Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology will serve you as both a workbook and a laboratory manual covering the core content areas: genetics and evolution, the human skeleton, non-human primates, and our fossil ancestors. The workbook activities included allow for further exploration.

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PART 1: GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

  • Chapter 1. The Scientific Method
  • Chapter 2. Cell Biology and DNA
  • Chapter 3. Principles of Inheritance
  • Chapter 4. Human Variation
  • Chapter 5. Hardy-Weinberg: Genetics of Populations

PART 2: THE HUMAN SKELETON

  • Chapter 6. Introduction to the Human Skeleton
  • Chapter 7. The Appendicular Skeleton
  • Chapter 8. The Axial Skeleton
  • Chapter 9. Human Variation and Forensic Anthropology

PART 3: THE NON-HUMAN PRIMATES

  • Chapter 10. Primate Classification
  • Chapter 11. Comparative Primate Anatomy
  • Chapter 12. Primate Behavior

PART 4: HUMAN ANCESTORS

  • Chapter 13. The Bipedal Adaptation and Our Earliest Ancestors
  • Chapter 14. The Rise of the Genus Homo
  • Chapter 15. Later Homo and Modern Human Origins

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