Teaching human variation : issues, trends and challenges / Goran Strkalj, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Štrkalj, Goran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical anthropology--Study and teaching.

Physical anthropology.

Human genetics--Variation.

Human genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work covers human variation, racial identification of single skulls in forensic cases, an in-class exercise on human variation, teaching human variation through the portal of the experimental history of science, and much more.

Contents:

Foreword : random thoughts on teaching human variation, past and present / Phillip V. Tobias

Human variation : the major unifying theme of biological anthropology / Darren Curno

Racial identification of single skulls in forensic cases : when myth becomes reality / Alan G. Morris

Human variation is not easy to understand : thirty years of teaching biological anthropology at four continents / Maciej Henneberg

Race and geographic variation conflated : an impediment to teaching human biology / Rachel Caspari

An in-class exercise on human variation / Patricia C. Rice

Challenging university students' concepts about race / Pamela Ashmore and Donna Hart

Bad old days or anthropology revisited : teaching human variation through the portal of the experimental history of science / Goran Štrkalj

Should human variation be taught to medical students? / A. Tracey Wilkinson, Goran Strkalj and Muhammad A. Spocter

Human variation : how to counteract the new waves of racism? / Charles Susanne.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61209-360-4

OCLC:

682614059