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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introducing the Study of Humanity | |
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| Anthropology: The Study of Humanity | |
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| Introducing Anthropology | |
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| Anthropology's Four Fields | |
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| Lessons Applied: Orangutan Research Leads to Orangutan Advocacy | |
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| Crossing the Fields: What Is Europe? | |
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| Ethics, Relevance to the Public, and Careers | |
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| Culture and Diversity | |
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| The Concept of Culture | |
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| Multiple Cultural Worlds | |
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| Lessons Applied: Historical Archaeology and the Story of the Northern Cheyenne Outbreak of 1879 | |
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| Crossing the Fields: Elderly Females Take the Lead in Baboon Societies | |
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| Contemporary Debates about Culture | |
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| Critical Thinking: Adolescent Stress: Biologically Determined or Culturally Constructed? | |
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| Science, Biology, and Evolution | |
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| Science and the Tree of LifeEvolution Explains the Tree of Life and Humanity's Place in It | |
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| Lessons Applied: Applying Science to the Ethical Treatment of Nonhuman Primates | |
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| How Evolution Works | |
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| Crossing the Fields: Breeding and Culture in the "Sport of Kings" | |
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| Methods Close-Up: Using DNA Evidence to Reconstruct the Origin of the Indigenous People of the Andaman Islands | |
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| Research Methods in Anthropology | |
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| Studying Humanity's Past | |
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| Methods Close-Up: Studying Egyptian Mummy Tissue for Clues about Ancient Disease | |
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| Studying Contemporary Humanity | |
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| Critical Thinking: Missing Women in the Trobriand Islands | |
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| Crossing the Fields: Visual Anthropology | |
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| Research Challenges | |
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| Biological and Cultural Evolution | |
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| The Nonhuman Primates | |
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| The Primates | |
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| Primate Characteristics | |
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| Critical Thinking: Infanticide in Primates and the Sexual Selection Hypothesis | |
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| Varieties of Primates | |
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| Nonuman Primates: Windows to Humanity's Past Face a Fragile Future | |
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| Crossing the Fields: Learning about Chimpanzee Tool Use through Archaeology | |
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| Lessons Applied: Using Primatology Data for Primate Conservation Programs | |
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| The Earliest Human Ancestors | |
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| Finding and Interpreting Hominin Fossils | |
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| Methods Close-Up: Reconstructing Whole Fossils from Fragments | |
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| The Early Hominins | |
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| Crossing the Fields: Cultural Variations on the Narrative of Human Origins and Evolution | |
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| Critical Thinking: "Lumpers" and "Splitters | |
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| "Early Hominin Adaptations | |
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| Emergence and Evolution of Archaic Homo | |
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| The First Humans | |
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| Critical Thinking: What Is Really in the Toolbox? | |
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| Archaic Homo Moves Out of Africa | |
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| Lessons Applied: Anthropologists Advocate for World Heritage Status for Atapuerca, Spain | |
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| Behavioral and Cultural Evolution | |
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| Crossing the Fields: From Kanzi to Olduvai, But Not Quite | |
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| Modern Humans: Origins, Migrations, and Transitions | |
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| The Origin of Modern Humans | |
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| Modern Humans during the Upper Paleolithic | |
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| Lessons Applied: Helping to Resolve Conflicts about Repainting Australian Indigenous Cave Art | |
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| Critical Thinking: Unfair to Neanderthals? | |
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| Mesolithic Transitions during the Holocene Era | |
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| Crossing The Fields: Linguistic Anthropology Provides Insights into the Bantu Expansion | |
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| The Neolithic and Urban Revolutions | |
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| The Neolithic Revolution and the Beginnings of Settled LifeCivilization: The Urban Revolution, States and Empires | |
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| Crossing The Fi | |