Sinopsis
Contemporary biological anthropology is a dauntingly broad field. It studies humans in the same way that zoologists study their subject species from a perspective that includes all aspects of the species’ biology and that emphasizes the interrelationships among those aspects. In addition to encompassing the traditional topics of the human fossil record and human biological variation, bioanthropology includes primatology, modern technologies in molecular genetics, human demography, disease and medical issues, development of the individual, life histories, and such applications as forensic anthropology. Bioanthropology also appreciates that our cultural behavior is an integral part of our behavior as a species. No wonder, then, that I (and others I have spoken to) have had difficulty in covering the entire field in a one-semester course. We have ended up leaving out important aspects (or paying them little more than lip service), or we have sacrificed the sense of bioanthropology as an integrated whole for a rushed and encyclopedic inventory of all the field’s current topics.
As modern bioanthropology increased in breadth and complexity over the past several decades, so too did the size and detail of introductory texts. Several are now more than 600 pages long. Attempts to produce
shorter introductory texts have consisted of simply cutting out parts of these tomes, resulting in rather uneven, sometimes oddly organized, presentations of the field.
Content
- BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION
- EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS
- THE PROCESSES OF EVOLUTION
- THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND THE SHAPE OF EVOLUTION
- A BRIEF EVOLUTIONARY TIMETABLE
- THE PRIMATES
- PRIMATE BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
- STUDYING THE HUMAN PAST
- EVOLUTION OF THE EARLY HOMINIDS
- THE EVOLUTION OF GENUS HOMO
- EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION IN HUMAN POPULATIONS
- HUMAN BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
- BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND TODAY’S WORLD
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