Annual editions physical anthropology
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| Resource Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York]
McGraw-Hill Education
[2016]
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| Edition: | Twenty-sixth edition. |
| Series: | Annual editions
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Table of Contents:
- Unit 1. Evolutionary perspectives ; Was Darwin wrong? / David Quammen ; The facts of evolution / Michael Shermer ; Evolution in action / Jonathan Weiner ; America's science problem / Shawn Lawrence Otto ; Why should students learn evolution? / Brian J. Alters and Sandra M. Alters
- Unit 2. Primates ; No alpha males allowed / Steve Kemper ; Love in the time of monkeys / Eduardo Fernandez-Duque; The 2% difference / Robert Sapolsky ; Got culture? / Craig Stanford ; Dim forest, bright chimps / Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Achermann ; Earthly delights / Frans de Waal ; One for all / Frans de Waal ; Friends with benefits / Lauren Brent ; The it factor / Gary Stix
- Unit 3. Sex and gender ; What are friends for? / Barbara Smuts ; What's love got to do with it?: sex among our closest relatives is a rather open affair / Meredith F. Small ; The double life of women / Annie Murphy Paul ; Powers of two / Blake Edgar ; When Do Girls Rule the Womb? / Jennifer Abbasi
- Unit 4. The fossil evidence : our true dawn / Catherine Brahic ; Welcome to the family / Bernard Wood ; The first cookout / Kate Wong ; Rethinking neanderthals / Joe Alper ; Neandertal minds / Joe Alper ; Human hybrids / Michael F. Hammer
- Unit 5. Late hominid evolution ; The story in the stones / David Robson ; King of beasts / Lars Werdelin ; The birth of childhood / Ann Gibbons ; The evolution of grandparents / Rachel Caspari ; A bigger, better brain / Maddalena Bearzi and Craig Stanford ; The naked truth / Nina G. Jablonski ; Long live the humans / Heather Pringle
- Unit 6. Human diversity ; Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin ; How real is race? Using anthropology to make sense of human diversity / Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze ; The tall and the short of it / Barry Bogin ; Dead men do tell tales / William R. Maples
- Unit 7. Living with the past ; The perfect plague / Jared Diamond and Nathan Wolfe ; The inuit paradox / Patricia Gadsby ; The food addiction / Paul J. Kenny ; Curse and blessing of the Ghetto / Jared Diamond ; Ironing it out / Sharon Moalem ; Why we help / Martin A. Nowak ; Don't swallow them / Caroline Williams ; The evolution of inequality / Deborah Rogers.