Introduction to physical anthropology / Robert Jurmain, Harry Nelson.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Introduction
what is anthropology
cultural anthropology
e.tc

CHAPTER TWO: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF LIFE
Introduction
The cell
Chromosomes
Cell division: mitosis
e.tc

CHAPTER THREE: PRINCIPLES OF INHERITANCE
Introduction
Gregor Mendel's experiments with garden peas
Mendelian Inheritance in humans
e.tc

CHAPTER FOUR: PRINCIPLES OF EVOLUTION
introduction
The path to natural selection
The scientific revolution
Darwin's theory of evolution
e.tc

CHAPTER FIVE: APPROACHES TO HUMAN VARIATION
Introduction
The concept of race
Historical views toward human variation
Human polymorphisms
e.tc

CHAPTER SIX: HUMAN ADAPTABILITY: MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
Adaptation and acclimatization
Light/solar environment
High-altitude stress
e.tc

CHAPTER SEVEN: EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
Introduction
the human place in the organic world
taxonomy
e.tc

CHAPTER EIGHT: LIVING PRIMATES
introduction
primate evolutionary trends
The Arboreal adaptation
The living primates
e.tc

CHAPTER NINE: FUNDAMENTALS OF PRIMATE BEHAVIOUR
Introduction
Behaviour and human origins
Nonhuman primates
e.tc

CHAPTER TEN: PRIMATE MODELS FOR HUMAN EVOLUTION
Introduction
Aspects of life history and body size
Communication
Affiliation behaviours
e.tc

CHAPTER ELEVEN: PRIMATE EVOLUTION
Introduction
Time scale
Early primate evolution
e.tc

CHAPTER TWELVE: PALEONTHROPOLOGY
Introduction
Definition of hominid
The strategy of palaeoanthropology
e.tc

CHAPTER THIRTEEN : PLIO-PLEISTOCENE HOMINIDS
Introduction
Characteristics of hominids: The central role OF bipedal locomotion
Early hominids in the Plio-Pleistocene
The East African Rift Valley
e.tc

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: PLIO-PLEISTOCENE HOMINIDS: ORGANIZATION AND INTERPRETATION
Introduction
Geology and dating problems in south Africa
Interpretations: What does it all mean?
e.tc

Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-530) and index.