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06956aam a2200349 i 4500 001 301AAB982E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 170216s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017007199 020 $a 0190490993 020 $a 9780190490997 035 $a (OCoLC)973733263 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d DLC $d OCLCQ $d CRU $d UKMGB $d NLM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GN60 $b .M32 2018 060 00 $a 2018 H-782 060 10 $a GN 60 082 00 $a 599.9 $2 23 100 1 $a Marks, Jonathan $q (Jonathan M.), $d 1955- 245 14 $a The alternative introduction to biological anthropology / $c Jonathan Marks, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xix, 283 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $t References and Further Reading. $t What Is Anthropology? -- $t Subfields of Anthropology -- $t Anthropology of Science -- $t Normative View of Science: Scientific Method -- $t Social Matrix of Science -- $t Relativizing Science -- $t Origins of Anthropology -- $t Origins of Physical Anthropology -- $t Biological Anthropology Today -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Beginnings of a New View of Nature -- $t Scientific Revolution -- $t Decline of Degeneration -- $t Anatomy of a "Pygmie" -- $t Biblical Fallibility, or at Least Incompleteness -- $t Monogenism -- $t Cause and Effect -- $t Great Chain of Being -- $t Buffon's Objection to the Nested Hierarchy -- $t Extinction -- $t Natural Theology -- $t Uniformitarian Geology -- $t Adam's World -- $t Human Evolution -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Darwin's Argument -- $t Where People Fit In -- $t Sacrifice -- $t Implications for Pattern -- $t Implications for Species -- $t Implications for Biological History -- $t Implications for Relating Humans to Other Animals -- $t Phylogeny: The Core of Darwinism -- $t Other Darwinisms -- $t Social Darwinism -- $t Neo-Darwinism -- $t "Synthetic Theory" -- $t Evolution at the Molecular Level -- $t Punctuated Equilibria -- $t Sociobiology -- $t Universal Darwinism -- $t Atheistic Darwinism -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Theory of Particulate Inheritance: Mendel's Laws -- $t Ten Non-Mendelian Laws -- $t Chromosome Theory -- $t Linkage -- $t Crossing-Over -- $t Polygenic Inheritance -- $t Environmental Influence on Phenotypes -- $t Unit Characters -- $t Properties of Heterozygotes -- $t Pleiotropy -- $t Imprinting -- $t Extra-Nuclear Inheritance -- $t Molecular Genomic Basis of Heredity -- $t Alpha-Globin Gene Cluster -- $t Mutation -- $t Meanings of the Gene and Genetics -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Do Things Exist for a Reason? -- $t Principal Abstraction: The Gene Pool -- $t Gene Flow -- $t Inbreeding -- $t Natural Selection -- $t Genetic Drift -- $t Sickle Cell -- $t Why Is the Gene Pool the Way It Is? -- $t Adaptation or Founder Effect? -- $t Another Point Illustrated by Sickle Cell and Phenylketonuria -- $t Sickle Cell, Tay-Sachs, and Genetic Screening -- $t Kinship as a Biocultural Construction -- $t Genetic History and the Diversity Project -- $t Who Owns the Body? -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Speciation -- $t Specific Mate Recognition Systems -- $t Genetic Systems Producing Incompatibility -- $t Species as Individuals -- $t Levels and Rates of Evolution -- $t Developmental Genetics -- $t Allometric Growth -- $t Extinction -- $t Classification -- $t Systematics and Phylogeny -- $t Classical and Cladistic Taxonomy -- $t Phylogenetics -- $t Limitations of the Phylogenetic Method -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Primate Classification -- $t Problems of Uniformitarianism -- $t Genetic and Anatomical Data -- $t Mammals -- $t Our Place in Primate Systematics -- $t Living Apes -- $t African Ape Clade -- $t Cladism, Reductionism, and the Rise of the Hominins -- $t What Does It Mean to Be 98% Genetically Chimpanzee? -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t What Primates Can and Can't Tell Us -- $t Primate Fieldwork -- $t Primates in Groups -- $t Social Behavior and Ecology -- $t Food -- $t Sexual Activity and Parenthood -- $t Models for Human Evolution -- $t Baboons in the Sixties, Chimps in the Nineties -- $t Looking Elsewhere for Clues about Human Evolution -- $t Ape Mind -- $t Culture -- $t Conservation -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Human Nature -- $t Most Fundamental Human Adaptation: Bipedalism -- $t Why Be Bipedal? -- $t Second Fundamental Human Adaptation: The Teeth -- $t Why Reduce the Canines? -- $t Third Fundamental Human Adaptation: The Brain -- $t Why Be Big Brained? -- $t Social and Life-History Novelties -- $t Physiological and Sexual Novelties -- $t What Does It Take to Make a Scenario of Human Evolution Valuable? -- $t Cultural Evolution -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Scientific Inferences across Time -- $t Skeletal Biology -- $t Sexual Dimorphism -- $t Ontogeny -- $t Geographic Variation -- $t Paleopathology -- $t Sources of Morphological Variation -- $t Lumping and Splitting -- $t Fossilization -- $t Other Considerations -- $t Rights and Responsibilities in Paleoanthropology -- $t Kinds of Evidence -- $t Superposition and Association -- $t Dating -- $t Doing the Best We Can with Lost Data -- $t Making Sense of Human Ancestry -- $t Classifying the Living Apes and Fossil Ancestors -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Shadow of Piltdown Man -- $t Hominid Origin -- $t Discovery of the Australopiths -- $t Australopithecus: Basal Bipeds -- $t Paranthropus: The Dental Adaptation -- $t Early Homo: The Mental Adaptation -- $t Beginning of Cultural Evolution -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Human Lineage -- $t Mental and Social Life of Homo erectus -- $t Homo sapiens, the Wise Species -- $t Neandertal Life -- $t Anatomically Modern People -- $t Emergence of Art -- $t Political Nature of Ancestry -- $t Testing Paleontological Models Genetically -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Race -- $t Patterns of Contemporary Human Variation -- $t Why Do We See Races? -- $t Race as a Biocultural Category -- $t Asking Scientific Questions about Human Diversity -- $t Race Is to Ethnicity as Sex Is to Gender, But Not Quite -- $t What Is Innate? -- $t Patterns of Human Genetic and Behavioral Variation -- $t References and Further Reading -- $t Theme -- $t Adaptability and the Human Condition -- $t Folk Theories of Heredity -- $t State of the Species -- $t Anthropology of Science -- $t Bioethics -- $t Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA): Who Owns the Bones? -- $t Origin Myths, Scientific and Otherwise -- $t Biocultural Studies, or Cyborg Anthropology -- $t References and Further Reading. 650 0 $a Physical anthropology. 650 7 $a Physical anthropology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01062357 650 12 $a Anthropology, Physical. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000885 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025438.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=301AAB982E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search