A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Clark Spencer Larsen

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781119828051
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Antropología física

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent years. Advances in DNA research, behavioral anthropology, nutrition science, and other fields are transforming our understanding of what makes us human.

A Companion to Biological Anthropology provides a timely and comprehensive account of the foundational concepts, historical development, current trends, and future directions of the discipline. Authoritative yet accessible, this field-defining reference work brings together 37 chapters by established and younger scholars on the biological and evolutionary components of the study of human development. The authors discuss all facets of contemporary biological anthropology including systematics and taxonomy, population and molecular genetics, human biology and functional adaptation, early primate evolution, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics.

Updated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic disease outbreaks, global inequalities, migration and health, resource access and population growth, recent primate behavior research, the fossil record of primates and humans, and much more.

A Companion to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students in biological anthropology, geosciences, ancient and modern disease, bone biology, biogeochemistry, behavioral ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Serious page
• Title page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• 1 The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology
• Part I: History
• 2 Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology
• Part II: The Present and the Living
• 3 Evolution: What It Means and How We Know
• 4 Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present
• 5 Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations
• 6 Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation
• 7 Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology
• 8 Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence
• 9 Climate-Related Human Biological Variation
• 10 Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics
• 11 Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of the Global Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases
• 12 Ancient DNA and Disease
• 13 Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology
• 14 Demography, Including Paleodemography
• 15 Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition
• 16 Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving?
• 17 Primates Defined
• 18 Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation
• 19 Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example
• 20 Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates
• Part III: The Past and the Dead
• 21 Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology
• 22 Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order
• 23 Catarrhine Origins and Evolution
• 24 The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins
• 25 Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals
• 26 Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Subspecies: The Genetic/Genomic Revolution in Paleoanthropology
• 27 Bioarchaeology: Transformations in Lifestyle, Morbidity, and Mortality
• 28 Paleopathology: A Twenty-first Century Perspective
• 29 Forensic Anthropology: Current Issues
• 30 Diet reconstruction and Ecology
• 31 Current Concepts in Bone Biology
• 32 Deducing Attributes of Dental Growth and Development from Fossil Hominin Teeth
• 33 Skull: Function – New Directions
• 34 Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been
• 35 Primate Locomotion: A Comparative and Developmental Perspective
• 36 Teaching Biological Anthropology: Pedagogy of Human Evolution and Human Variation
• Index
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