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Chapter 1: Investigating the Nature of Humankind
The World of Physical Anthropology
Box 1-1 The Branches of Anthropology
The Nature of Science
Views on the Essence of Humans, Nature, and Time
Box 1-2 William “Strata” Smith
Box 1-3 The Scopes Trial
Chapter 2: The Study of Heredity
Discovering the Mechanisms of Heredity
Box 2-1 Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of the Laws of Heredity
Cytogenetics
The Molecular Basis Of Heredity
Box 2-2 Facts about DNA
Chapter 3: The Modern Study of Human Genetics
Medical Genetics
Box 3-1 Sex and the Olympics
Genetics and Human Affairs
Box 3-2 Genetics and Insurance: An Ethical Dilemma
Advances in the Molecular Study of Genetics
Box 3-3 Landmarks in Genetics: The First DNA Sequence of an Animal Genome Is Decoded
Box 3-4 DNA Fingerprinting
Chapter 4: Population Genetics
A Model of Population Genetics
Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change
Box 4-1 The Case of the Island of the Colorblind
Box 4-2 The Case of Mad King George
Box 4-3 The Population Genetics of Religious Isolates
Chapter 5: Natural Selection and the Origin of Species
Box 5-1 The Importance of Words
Natural Selection
The Origin of Species
Box 5-2 Social Darwinism
Box 5-3 Eugenics and the Reduction of Variability
Chapter 6: People's Place in Nature
Taxonomy
Box 6-1 The Diversity of Life
Box 6-2 The Feet of Whales
Box 6-3 Linnaean Systematics in the Twenty-First Century
People and the Animal World
Chapter 7: The Living Primates
The Primate Order
Box 7-1 The Advantages of Color Vision
The Living Primates
Box 7-2 Talking about Apes and Humans
Box 7-3 The Discovery of the Gorilla
Box 7-4 Vanishing Primates
Chapter 8: Comparative Studies: Anatomy and Genetics
Comparative Anatomy of Locomotion And Manipulation
Comparative Anatomy of the Skull And Brain
Box 8-1 Differences in Male and Female Brains: Preference for Toys
Box 8-2 The Ultrastructure of Tooth Enamel
Comparative Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology
Chapter 9: Nonhuman Primate Behavior
Primate Behavior
Case Studies of Primate Behavior
Box 9-1 The Behavior of the Dwarf Lemur
Box 9-2 The Rhesus Monkeys of Cayo Santiago
Box 9-3 The Sexual Behavior of the Bonobo
Chapter 10: Human Behavior In Perspective
Social Behavior of Human Foragers
Are Humans Unique?
Box 10-1 Chimpanzee Culture
Box 10-2 Bird and Human Communication: Alex the Parrot and the FOXP2 Gene
Chapter 11: The Record Of The Past
Box 11-1 Fossils of the Gods
Fossils and Their Interpretation
Geological Time
Box 11-2 What Is a Billion?
Box 11-3 The Piltdown Skull
Box 11-4 Where Have All the Dinosaurs Gone?
Chapter 12: The Early Primate Fossil Record and the
Evolution of the Early Primates
Evolution of the Anthropoidea
Evolution of the Hominoidea
Box 12-1 Discovering the Earliest Primate
The Early Evolution of the Hominins
Origins of the Hominins
Chapter 13: The Early Hominids
Discoveries of the Early Hominids
Box 13-1 Naming Fossils
Early Hominids: Interpretations of the Evidence
Box 13-2 What Is a Tool?
Chapter 14: Early Species of The Genus Homo
The Early Homo Fossil Record
Box 14-1 The Little Hominins of Flores Island
Box 14-2 The Disappearance of the Zhoukoudian Fossils
Box 14-3 How Do You Spell and Pronounce "Neandert_l?"
Box 14-4 La Chapelle-aux-Saints
The Culture of Early Homo
Box 14-5 Who Are We Having for Dinner? The Roots of Cannibalism
Chapter 15: The Evolution Of Homo Sapiens
Homo sapiens
The Culture of Homo sapiens
Box 15-1 Upper Paleolithic Cave Art
Post-Pleistocene Homo sapiens
Box 15-2 "Man's Best Friend"
Chapter 16: The Biology of Modern Homo Sapiens
Human Adaptability: Adjustments
Box 16-1 How High Can People Live without Bottled Oxygen?
Human Adapation
The Nature of Human Growth and Development
Box 16-2 Aging
Chapter 17: The Analysis of Human Variation
The Distribution of Variability
Box 17-1 Skeletal Evidence of Cultural Practices
The Classification of Human Variation
Box 17-2 Are the Japanese, on the Average, Smarter than Americans?
Chapter 18: The Modern World
Cultural Changes and Their Consequences
Box 18-1 Human Technology as a Selective Agent
Application of Anthropological Knowledge
Box 18-2 Flesh Reconstructions in Forensic Anthropology
Appendix: An Introduction to Skeletal Anatomy and the Anatomy of the Brain
Glossary
Glossary of Primate Higher Taxa
Credits
Index
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