Biological Anthropology

by Tori Saneda & Michelle Field

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Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors. It is a subfield of anthropology that provides a biological perspective to the systematic study of human beings.

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Publisher
Cascadia Community College
Subjects
Social Sciences, Anthropology
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. I: Evolutionary Theory
  7. 1.1: What is Biological Anthropology?
  8. 1.2: Scientific Method
  9. 1.3: History of Evolutionary Thought
  10. 1.4: Darwinian Evolution
  11. 1.5: Cell Biology and Basic Genetics
  12. 1.6: Mendelian Genetics
  13. 1.7: Modern Synthesis
  14. 1.8: Modern Human Variation
  15. II: Non-Human Primates
  16. 2.1: Classification - Ordering the Natural World
  17. 2.2: Primate Skeletal Anatomy
  18. 2.3: Modern Primates
  19. 2.4: Taxonomy of the Living Primates
  20. 2.5: Primate Ecology
  21. 2.6: Overviews of Living Primates (Strepsirhines)
  22. 2.7: Overviews of Living Primates (Haplorhines)
  23. 2.8: More Haplorhines (Old World Monkeys)
  24. 2.9: Even more Haplorhines (The Apes)
  25. 2.10: Primate Evolution
  26. III: Human Evolution
  27. 3.1: Trends
  28. 3.2: Proto-Hominins
  29. 3.3: Homo Genus
  30. 3.4: Material Culture
  31. Back Matter
  32. Index
  33. Glossary
  34. Detailed Licensing