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Classic and contemporary readings in physical anthropology / [edited by] Mary K. Sandford with Eileen M. Jackson.
LIBRA GN60 .S18 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physical anthropology--Textbooks.
- Physical anthropology.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 147 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Student edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, [2009]
- Summary:
- Edited by Mary K. Sandford with Eileen M. Jackson, this reader presents classic and contemporary articles on key issues dealing with the nature of science, evolution and heredity, primate behavior, human evolution, and modern human variation. Discussion questions and Internet resources conclude each chapter, providing you with further opportunities to consider and explore the topic at hand.
- Contents:
- The nature of science
- Evolution and heredity
- Primates
- Human evolution
- Modern human variation.
- Science : truth without certainty / Eugenie Scott
- Physical anthropology : its scope and aims, its history and present status in America / Aleš Hrdlička
- The new physical anthropology / Sherwood H. Washburn
- Patterns / Niles Eldredge
- The fossils say yes / Donald R. Prothero
- The origins of form / Sean B. Carroll
- Evolution in action / Jonathan Weiner
- A terrible Scrooge / Olivia Judson
- Reading the book of Jim / Sharon Begley
- The social life of baboons / S.L. Washburn and Irven Devore
- Leading ladies / Jeanne Altmann
- Dance of the sexes / Sharon T. Pochron and Patricia C. Wright
- Learning from the chimpanzees : a message humans can understand / Jane Goodall
- Why are some animals so smart? / Carel van Schaik
- The antiquity of human walking / John Napier
- Lucy's baby / Kate Wong
- New fossils challenge line of descent in human family tree / Ann Gibbons
- The dawn of Stone Age genomics / Elizabeth Pennisi
- Bayond stones and bones / Sharon Begley with Mary Carmichael
- Lactose and lactase / Norman Kretchmer
- How Africa learned to love the cow / Erika Check
- Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin
- Ancient DNA reveals Neanderthals with red hair, fair complexions / Elizabeth Culotta.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780495510147
- 0495510149
- OCLC:
- 176949204
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