Table of Contents
Introduction: What Is Biological Anthropology?
PART I Mechanisms of Evolution
1 Origins of Evolutionary Thought
2 Genetics: Cells and Molecules
3 Genetics: From Genotype to Phenotype
4 The Forces of Evolution and the Formation of Species
5 Human Variation: Evolution, Adaptation, and Adaptability
PART II Primates
6 The Primates
7 Primate Behavior
PART III Paleontology and Primate Evolution
8 Fossils in Geological Context
9 Origin of Primates
PART IV The Human Fossil Record
10 Early Hominins
11 Origin and Evolution of the Genus Homo
12 Archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertals
13 The Emergence and Dispersal of Homo sapiens
PART V New Frontiers in Biological Anthropology
14 Evolution of the Brain and Language
15 Biomedical Anthropology
16 The Evolution of Human Behavior
17 Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology