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Introduction to physical anthropology / Robert Jurmain, Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University, Lynn Kilgore, University of Colorado, Boulder, Wenda Trevathan, Professor Emerita, New Mexico State University, Russell L. Ciochon, University of Iowa, Eric J. Bartelink, Associated Professor, California State University, Chico.
Penn Museum Library GN60 .J87 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jurmain, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physical anthropology.
- Physical anthropology--Textbooks.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 576 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Fifteenth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Cengage Learning, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction to physical anthropology
- The development of evolutionary theory
- The biological basis of life
- Heredity and evolution
- Macroevolution: Processes of vertebrate and mammalian evolution
- Survey of the living primates
- Primate behavior
- Overview of the fossil primates
- Paleoanthropology: Reconstructing early hominin behavior and ecology
- Hominin origins in Africa
- The first dispersal of the genus Homo: Homo erectus and contemporaries
- Premodern humans
- The origin and dispersal of modern humans
- Modern human biology: Patterns of variation
- Modern human biology: Patterns of adaptation
- Legacies of human evolutionary history: Effects on the life course
- The human disconnection.
- Notes:
- Includes bilbiographic references (pages 531-556) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1337099821
- 9781337099820
- 9781337115698
- 133711569X
- OCLC:
- 957184894
- Publisher Number:
- 99980201213
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