ISBN: 9780073405193

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About this productProduct InformationThis supplementary reader offers both historical and contemporary articles that demonstrate the nature and significant contributions of biological anthropology. With nearly one-third of the selections focusing on living populations, the 42 readings cover the entire range of bioanthropological studies: evolution, nonhuman primates, human paleontology, and modern human groups. Eleven of the articles are new to this edition, including Adam Summer's "Born to Run," Kate Wong's "The Littlest Human," James J. McKenna's "Babies Need Their Mothers Beside Them," and Michael Balter's "Are Humans Still Evolving?"Product IdentifiersPublisherMcGraw-Hill Higher EducationISBN-100073405191ISBN-139780073405193eBay Product ID (ePID)56987534Product Key FeaturesFormatPaperbackPublication Year2007LanguageEnglishDimensionsWeight18.4 OzWidth8.4in.Height0.4in.Length10.8in.Additional Product FeaturesDewey Edition22Table of Content* Indicates new to this edition. PART I. BEING A BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST 1. Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey, "Finding Lucy," fromLucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, 1980 2. Agustin Fuentes, "Monkey Business in Bali: Field Work and Teaching Among the Temple Macaques" 3. Michael Alan Park. "The Homegoing," fromLessons from the Past: An Introductory Reader in Archaeology, 1999. 4. Katherine A. Dettwyler, "Bad Breath, Gangrene, and God's Angels," fromDancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, 1994 PART II. THE NATURE OF SCIENCE 5. Stephen Jay Gould, "Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs," fromThe Flamingo's Smile, 1985 6. Kenneth L. Feder, "Piltdown, Paradigms, and the Paranormal." fromSkeptical Inquirer, 1990 7. John A. Moore, "Science as a Way of Knowing," fromScience as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology, 1993 PART III. THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION 8. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck, "The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics," fromPhilosophie zoologique, 1809 9. Charles R. Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, "Natural Selection," from"The Linnean Society Papers," 1859 10. Johann Gregor Mendel, "The Laws of Inheritance," from"Experiments in Plant Hybridization," 1866 11. Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution As Fact and Theory," fromHen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, 1983 12. Robert S. Root-Bernstein, "Darwin's Rib," fromDiscover, 1995 *13. H. Allen Orr, "Devlolution," fromThe New Yorker, 2005 PART IV. THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION 14. Jared Diamond, "Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto," fromDiscover, 1991 15. Josie Glausiusz, "Unfortunate Drift," fromDiscover, 1995 16. Stephen Jay Gould, "What Is a Species?," fromDiscover, 1992 PART V. THE PRIMATES AND PRIMATE BEHAVIOR 17. Jonathan Marks, "98% Alike? (What Our Similarity to Apes Tells Us About Our Understanding of Genetics) fromThe Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000 *18. Sharon T. Pochron and Patricia C. Wright, "Dance of the Sexes," fromNatural History, 2005 19. Craig Stanford, "Close Encounters" fromNatural History, 2003 20. Gretchen Vogel, "Chimps in the Wild Show Stirrings of Culture," fromScience, December, 2002, pp. 74-83 21. Robert W. Sussman, "Exploring Our Basic Human Nature: Are Humans Inherently Violent?" fromAnthroNotes, 1997 PART VI. HOMINID EVOLUTION *22. Adam Summers, "Born to Run," fromNatural History, 2005 23. William R. Leonard, "Food for thought," fromScientific American, December, 2002 *24. Kate Wong, "The Littlest Human," fromScientific American, 2005 *25. Kate Wong, "The Morning of the Modern Mind," fromScientific American, 2005 PART VII. THE BIOANTHROPOLOGY OF MODERN HUMAN POPULATIONS 26. Donald K. Grayson, "Differential Mortality and the Donner Party Disaster," fromEvolutionary Anthropology, 1993 27. Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin, "Skin deep," fromScientific American, October, 2002 *28. Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams, "Evolution and the Origins of Disease," fromScientific American, 1998 PART VIII: HUMAN BIODIVERSITY *29. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough," fromThe Sciences, 1993 30. Carolus Linnaeus, "An Early Racial Taxonomy from"Systema naturae" (10th ed, 1758) 31. Jonathan Marks, "Science and Race" fromAmerican Behavioral Scientist,1996 32. Matt Carmill, "The Third Man," fromDiscover,1997 PART IX: BIOANTHROPOLOGY AND THE HUMAN GENOME 33. Svante Paabo, "The Mosiaic That Is Our Genome" fromNature, 2003 *34. Wen-Hsiung Li and Matthew A. Saunders, "The Chimpanzee and Us,"Nature, 2005IllustratedYesDewey Decimal599.9Copyright Date2008AuthorMichael Alan ParkEdition Number5Number of Pages227 PagesLc Classification NumberGn60.B54 2007Publication Date2007-02-01Lccn2006-048082, Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Book Title: Biological Anthropology : an Introductory Reader, Item Length: 10.8in. Publication Year: 2007, Format: Perfect, Language: English, Item Height: 0.4in. Genre: Social Science, Topic: Anthropology / Physical, Item Width: 8.4in. Item Weight: 18.4 Oz, Number of Pages: 227 Pages, McGraw-Hill Higher Education<

ISBN: 9780073405193

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. Paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex… More...

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