Introduction to physical anthropology

Synopsis

1. Introduction. PART 1: HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION. 2. The Development of Evolutionary Theory. 3. The Biological Basis of Life. 4. Heredity and Evolution. 5. Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution. PART 2: PRIMATES. 6. An Overview of the Primates. 7. Primate Behavior. 8. Primate Models for Human Evolution. PART 3: HOMINID EVOLUTION. 9. Paleoanthropology: Reconstructing Early Hominid Behavior and Ecology. 10. Hominid Origins in Africa. 11. The Earliest Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries. 12. Premodern Humans. 13. Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans. 14. Modern Human Biology: Patterns of Variation. PART 4: CONTEMPORARY HUMAN EVOLUTION 15. Modern Human Biology: Patterns of Adaptation. 16. Legacies of Human Evolutionary History.