About the Author | |
Preface Walkthrough | |
The Dimensions of Anthropology | |
What is Anthropology? | |
Overview | |
Human Adaptability Adaptation, Variation, and Change | |
General Anthropology Cultural Forces Shape Human Biology | |
The Subdisciplines of Anthropology | |
Cultural Anthropology | |
Archaeological Anthropology | |
Interesting Issues: Even Anthropologists | |
Get Culture Shock Biological, or Physical Anthropology | |
Linguistic Anthropology | |
Beyond the Classroom: The Unity of Hand and Foot | |
Bones for Problems in Biological Anthropology | |
Applied Anthropology | |
Anthropology and Other Academic Fields | |
Cultural Anthropology and Sociology | |
Anthropology and Psychology Science, Explanation, and Hypothesis Testing | |
Applying Anthropology | |
What is Applied Anthropology? | |
Academic and Applied Anthropology | |
Theory and Practice | |
Anthropology and Education | |
Urban Anthropology | |
Urban versus Rural Medical Anthropology | |
Beyond the Classroom: New Life, Good Health Anthropology and Business | |
Interesting Issues: Hot Asset in Corporate: Anthropology Degrees | |
Careers and Anthropology | |
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology | |
Ethics and Methods in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology | |
Overview | |
Ethics Methods Multidisciplinary Approaches Primatology Anthropometry Bone Biology Molecular Anthropology | |
Interesting Issues: A Novel Method of Assessing Why People Cooperate Paleoanthropology Survey and Excavation Systematic Survey Excavation Kinds of Archaeology | |
Dating the Past Relative | |
Dating Absolute | |
Dating: Radiometric Techniques | |
Absolute Dating: Dendrochronology | |
Molecular Dating | |
Evolution and Genetics | |
Overview | |
Evolution Genetics | |
Mendel's Experiments | |
Independent Assortment and Recombination Biochemical, or Molecular Genetics | |
Cell Division | |
Crossing Over Mutation | |
Interesting Issues: Genetic Politics Population | |
Genetics and Mechanisms of Genetic | |
Evolution Natural | |
Selection Mutations and Variety Random Genetic Drift Gene Flow | |
The Modern Synthesis Gradual or Rapid Change | |
Human Variation and Adaptation | |
Overview | |
Race: A Discredited Concept in Biology Races are Not Biologically Distinct | |
Interesting Issues: American Anthropological Association (AAA) Statement on "Race" Explaining Skin Color | |
Beyond the Classroom: Skin Pigmentation in Papua New Guinea Human Biological Adaptation Genes and Disease Facial Features Size and Body Build Lactose Tolerance | |
The Primates | |
Overview | |
Our Place among Primates Homologies and Analogies Primate Tendencies Prosimians Anthropoids | |
Beyond the Classroom: Providing Apes | |
Refuge: A Cultural Study of the Great Ape Sanctuary Community Monkeys | |
New World Monkeys | |
Old World Monkeys | |
Apes Gibbons Orangutans Gorillas Chimpanzees | |
Interesting Issues: Saving the Orangutan Bonobos Endangered Primates | |
Human-Primate Similarities | |
Learning Tools Predation and Hunting Aggression and Resources | |
Human-Primate Differences Sharing and Cooperation | |
Mating and Kinship Behavioral Ecology and Fitness Bringing it All Together: Saving the Forests | |
Primate Evolution | |
Overview | |
Fossils and Chronology | |
Early Primates Early Cenozoic Primates | |
Beyond the Classroom: A Behavioral Ecology | |
Study of Two Lemur Species Oligocene Anthropoids | |
Miocene Hominoids Proconsul Afropithecus and Kenyapithecus Sivapithecus Ginantopithecus Dryopithecus Oreopithecus A Missing Link? "Toumai" Orrorin tugenensis | |
Beyond the Classroom: Maceration of a Canadian Lynx | |
Early Hominids | |
Overview | |
Chronology of Ho | |
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