A Companion to Biological Anthropology
by Clark Spencer Larsen
2nd Edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781119828082 |
| eText ISBN | 9781119828051 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publishing Year | 2023 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 720 |
A Companion to Biological Anthropology, 2nd Edition, is a reference work examining the evolutionary, anatomical, and genetic foundations of human development. The volume surveys the history of the discipline while outlining analytical frameworks for investigating biological variation across living and past populations.
Core chapters address systematics, taxonomy, population genetics, and early primate evolution. Contributors explore hominin paleoanthropology, paleogenetics, and primate behavior alongside specialized subfields such as bioarchaeology, paleopathology, demography, and forensic anthropology.
In addition to addressing topics such as epidemiology, health disparities, and racial thinking, the volume includes dedicated pedagogical coverage. This material reviews instructional approaches for teaching biological anthropology, human evolution, and human variation.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology
Part I: History
Chapter 2: Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology
Part II: The Present and the Living
Chapter 3: Evolution: What It Means and How We Know
Chapter 4: Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present
Chapter 5: Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations
Chapter 6: Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation
Chapter 7: Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology
Chapter 8: Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence
Chapter 9: Climate-Related Human Biological Variation
Chapter 10: Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics
Chapter 11: Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of theGlobal Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases
Chapter 12: Ancient DNA and Disease
Chapter 13: Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology
Chapter 14: Demography, Including Paleodemography
Chapter 15: Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition
Chapter 16: Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving?
Chapter 17: Primates Defined
Chapter 18: Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation
Chapter 19: Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example
Chapter 20: Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates
Part III: The Past and the Dead
Chapter 21: Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology
Chapter 22: Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order
Chapter 23: Catarrhine Origins and Evolution
Chapter 24: The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins
Chapter 25: Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals
Chapter 26: Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Subspecies: The Genetic/Genomic Revolution inPaleoanthropology
Chapter 27: Bioarchaeology: Transformations in Lifestyle, Morbidity, and Mortality
Chapter 28: Paleopathology: A Twenty-first Century Perspective
Chapter 29: Forensic Anthropology: Current Issues
Chapter 30: Diet reconstruction and Ecology
Chapter 31: Current Concepts in Bone Biology
Chapter 32: Deducing Attributes of Dental Growth and Development from Fossil Hominin Teeth
Chapter 33: Skull: Function – New Directions
Chapter 34: Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been
Chapter 35: Primate Locomotion: A Comparative and Developmental Perspective
Chapter 36: Teaching Biological Anthropology: Pedagogy of Human Evolution and Human Variation
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