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Title:

Research frontiers in anthropology. Volume II, Physical anthropology / editors: Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Peter N. Peregrini.

Publisher:

Prentice Hall,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

vi, 400 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Physical anthropology.

Other Authors:

Ember, Carol R.
Ember, Melvin.
Peregrini, Peter N.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Paleoanthropology and evolutionary theory / Ian Tattersall. Evolution of a physical anthropologist / Katharine Milton -- Miocene apes / David R. Begun -- Explaining primate origins / Matt Cartmill -- Evolutionary genetics / Robert B. Eckhardt -- Natural variation in human fecundity / Peter T. Ellison -- Testing theories and hypotheses about modern human origins / David W. Frayer -- What accounts for population variation in height? / J. Patrick Gray & Linda D. Wolfe -- Natural history and evolutionary fate of Homo erectus / Andrew Kramer -- Bare bones anthropology : the bioarchaeology of human remains / Clark S. Larsen -- Growth and development of Turkana pastoralists / Michael A. Little -- Dental deductions : why and how anthropologists study teeth / John R. Lukacs -- "Robust" Australopithecines, our family tree and homoplasy / Henry M. McHenry -- Neandertal growth : examining developmental adaptations in earlier Homo sapiens / Nancy Minugh-Purvis -- Why are primates so smart? / Joan B. Silk & Robert Boyd -- Australopithecus afarensis and human evolution / Scott W. Simpson -- Chimpanzee hunting behavior and human evolution / Craig B. Stanford -- Paleoanthropology and evolutionary theory / Ian Tattersall.

Series:

CORE anthropology series

ISBN:

9780536010339
0536010331

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40194447

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell) — GN50.2.R37x 1998