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Being a Biological Anthropologist | |
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"Finding Lucy," from Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, 1980 | |
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"Monkey Business in Bali: Field Work and Teaching Among the Temple Macaques" | |
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"The Homegoing," from Lessons from the Past: An Introductory Reader in Archaeology, 1999 . | |
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"Bad Breath, Gangrene, and God's Angels," from Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, 1994 | |
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The Nature of Science | |
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"Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs," from The Flamingo's Smile, 1985 | |
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"Piltdown, Paradigms, and the Paranormal." from Skeptical Inquirer, 1990 | |
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"Science as a Way of Knowing," from Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology, 1993 | |
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The Evolution of Evolution | |
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"The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics," from Philosophie zoologique, 1809 | |
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"Natural Selection," from "The Linnean Society Papers," 1859 | |
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"The Laws of Inheritance," from "Experiments in Plant Hybridization," 1866 | |
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"Evolution As Fact and Theory," from Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, 1983 | |
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"Darwin's Rib," from Discover, 1995 | |
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"Devolution," from The New Yorker, 2005 | |
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The Process of Evolution | |
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"Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto," from Discover, 1991 | |
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"Unfortunate Drift," from Discover, 1995 | |
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"What Is a Species?," from Scientific American, 2008 | |
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The Primate and Primate Behavior | |
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"98% Alike? (What Our Similarity to Apes Tells Us About Our Understanding of Genetics) from The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000 | |
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"Dance of the Sexes," from Natural History, 2005 | |
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"Close Encounters" from Natural History, 2003 | |
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"Chimps in the Wild Show Stirrings of Culture," from Science, December, 2002, pp. 74-83 | |
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"Why We're Different: Probing the Gap Between Apes and Humans," from Science, 2008 | |
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Hominid Evolution | |
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"Born to Run," from Natural History, 2005 | |
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"Homing In On Early Homo ," from Nature, 2007 | |
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"Food for thought," from Scientific American, December, 2002 | |
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"The Littlest Human," from Scientific American, 2005 | |
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"When Hobbits (Slowly) Walked the Earth," from Science, 2008 | |
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"The Morning of the Modern Mind," from Scientific American, 2005 | |
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The Bioanthropology of Modern Human Populations | |
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"Differential Mortality and the Donner Party Disaster," from Evolutionary Anthropology, 1993 | |
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"Skin deep," from Scientific American, October, 2002 | |
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"Evolution and the Origins of Disease," from Scientific American, 1998 | |
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Human Biodiversity | |
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"Going Beyond X and Y," from Scientific American, 2007 | |
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"An Early Racial Taxonomy from "Systema naturae" (10th ed, 1758) | |
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"Science and Race" from American Behavioral Scientist,1996 | |
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"None of the Above," from The New Yorker, 2007 | |
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Bioanthropology and the Human Genome | |
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"Human Genetic Variation," from Science, 2007 | |
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"Relative Differences: The Myth of 1%," Science, 2007 | |
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"The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing," from Science, 2007 | |
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"Birthday Surprises," from Nature and The Daily Telegraph, 2008 | |
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Biological Anthropology: Applied and Considered | |
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"Babies Need Their Mothers Beside Them," from World Health, 1996 | |
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"The Iceman Reconsidered", from Scientific American, 2003 | |
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"Written in Bone: Reading the Remains of the 17th Century," from AnthroNotes, 2007 | |
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"Tracking Ebola's Deadly March Among Wild Apes," from Science, 2006 | |
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"Saartje Baartman: Her Life, Her Times, Her Remains, and the Negotiations for Their Repatriation from France to South Africa," from South African Journal of Science, 2002 | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |