Physical Anthropology

by Arnie Daniel Schoenberg

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This class is an introduction to physical anthropology, but for many it will be your first anthropology class, or perhaps your first science class in college, so it is worthwhile to back up and introduce both science and anthropology. And before talking about science, we should back up even farther, and talk about epistemology, the study of how we know things.

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Publisher
San Diego City College
Subjects
Social Sciences, Anthropology
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.
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. Preface
  7. 1: Introduction to Physical Anthropology
  8. 1.1: Science
  9. 1.2: Anthropology as a Science
  10. 2: Introduction to Biology
  11. 2.1: Introduction
  12. 2.2: Scale, Human Space, Powers of Ten for Physical Anthropology
  13. 2.3: Evolutionary Theory (Part 1)
  14. 2.4: Evolutionary Theory (Part 2)
  15. 2.5: Evolutionary Theory (Part 3)
  16. 2.6: "Forces" of Evolution
  17. 2.7: Genetics, Cellular Biology, and Variation (Part 1)
  18. 2.8: Genetics, Cellular Biology, and Variation (Part 2)
  19. 2.9: Summary Example- Holism in Anthropology, Sickle Cell Anemia and Malaria
  20. 3: Osteology
  21. 4: Paleontology
  22. 4.1: Paleontology → Paleoanthropology → Archaeology → History
  23. 4.2: Macroevolution
  24. 4.3: Species vs. Paleospecies
  25. 4.4: Interspecific vs. Intraspecific Variation
  26. 4.5: Plate Tectonics
  27. 4.6: Adaptive Radiation
  28. 4.7: Analogy vs. Homology
  29. 4.8: Taxonomy
  30. 4.9: Human Taxonomy
  31. 4.10: Mammals
  32. 5: Primatology
  33. 5.1: Introduction to Primatology
  34. 5.2: Primate Evolution
  35. 5.3: Primate Taxonomy
  36. 5.4: Ethology
  37. 5.5: Conservation
  38. 6: Paleoanthropology
  39. 6.1: Introduction to Paleoanthropology
  40. 6.2: Trends
  41. 6.3: Methods
  42. 6.4: Pre-australopithecines
  43. 6.5: Australopithecines
  44. 6.6: Early Genus Homo
  45. 6.7: Homo erectus
  46. 6.8: Around Homo erectus
  47. 6.9: Neandertals
  48. 6.10: Denisovians
  49. 6.11: The Cerutti Mastodon
  50. 6.12: Homo floresiensis
  51. 6.13: Homo naledi
  52. 6.14: Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens
  53. 7: Human Variation
  54. 7.1: Introduction to Human Variation
  55. 7.2: Age
  56. 7.3: Disease
  57. 7.4: Sex
  58. 7.5: Race
  59. 7.6: Culture
  60. 8: Homo sapiens Futures - Doom, Gloom, and Hope?
  61. 8.1: Introduction
  62. 8.2: Doom and Gloom
  63. 8.3: Hope
  64. Back Matter
  65. Index
  66. 9.1: Bibiolography
  67. Index
  68. Glossary
  69. Detailed Licensing