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| Indicates a selection new to this edition | |
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| Biological Anthropology1 | |
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| Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy | |
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| Through a comparison of evolution and creationism, this article examines the logic of scientific inquiry and the characteristics of scientific theory | |
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| Scientific theories are testable and correctable, which is why they lead to new and useful knowledge | |
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| Re-reading Root-Bernstein and McEachron in Cobb County, Georgia (2005)Cultural conflicts about evolution and creationism have centered on the American classroom | |
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| This selection describes recent courtroom skirmishes on this front-in a specific local case | |
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| What are Friends For? | |
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| "Friendship" between adult males and females is an important part of the society of olive baboons of Kenya | |
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| These mutually beneficial long-term relationships are usually based on female choice and are only indirectly related to sex | |
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| Observations of nonhuman primates make anthropologists rethink the origin and nature of human sociality | |
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| What's Love Got to Do With It? | |
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| In contrast to earlier hypotheses on the importance of territorial control in human evolutionary history, contemporary theories emphasize understanding individual strategies for reproductive success | |
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| this selection is more about sex than reproduction and raises the novel question, What is sex for? | |
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| Mothers and Others | |
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| Based on observations of other primates and hunter-gatherers, a new way of thinking about our species challenges long-held beliefs and has implications for child rearing and gender roles, the importance of kin groups and neighbors, and the practices and policies of our day care systems | |
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| Great Mysteries of Human Evolution | |
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| Despite the extraordinary number of hominid fossils discovered in the past thirty years, many questions remain open about human origins and evolution | |
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| this article asks eight basic questions about what is fundamentally human | |
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| Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs and Our Health | |
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| Biological anthropologists believe that our long evolutionary history has shaped our bodies and therefore strongly influences our health | |
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| Infant sleeping and breast-feeding patterns are linked to health issues like birth spacing, allergies, diarrhea, and dehydration, as well as increased risk of breast cancer and sudden infant death syndrome | |
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| Slumber's Unexplored Landscape | |
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| Most of our scientific understanding of the biology of sleep is based on laboratory work and assumptions of what are normal patterns of sleep behavior | |
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| Collaborations of biological anthropologists and cultural anthropologists show that the rules and expectations of a good night's sleep are quite different in traditional societies than our own | |
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| Ancient Genes and Modern Health | |
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| Many of the serious health problems confronting us today may be the result of an incongruity between our genetic heritage as descendants of hunter-gatherers and our current diet and lifestyle | |
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| The study of Paleolithic people may be the key to a healthy life | |
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| The Tall and the Short of It | |
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| A biological anthropologist discusses changes in the average height of populations as an example of human plasticity in the context of changing nutrition in childhood | |
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| Our environment is shaped by culture, and it affects our outward biological characteristics or phenotype | |
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| Identifying Victims after a Disaster | |
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| Forensic anthropology has taken on an important role both in the American public imagination and on the front lines of disaster relief efforts | |
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| This selection discusses how archaeology and forensic anthropology have increasingly played a part in the ide | |