Screen LibraryBiological anthropology
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McGraw-Hill,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston |
| Publication Dates: | c2002. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 485 p.: ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0767425944 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | Q98 |
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Q98 Q983 |
| Call Number: | Q98/P236-2/3rd.ed. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-467) and index. Finding Lucy / Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey -- Monkey business in Bali: field work and teaching among the temple macaques / Agustn̕ Fuentes -- Examining the bones of the "Elephant Man" / William R. Maples and Michael Browning -- Bad breath, gangrene, and God's angels / Katherine A. Dettwyler -- Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould -- Dawson's dawn man: the hoax at Piltdown / Kenneth L. Feder -- Science as a way of knowing / John A. Moore -- The inheritance of acquired characteristics / Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck -- Natural selection / Charles R. Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace -- The laws of inheritance / Johann Gregor Mendel -- Evolution as fact and theory / Stephen Jay Gould -- Darwin's rib / Robert S. Root-Bernstein -- Curse and blessing of the ghetto / Jared Diamond -- Unfortunate drift / Josie Glausiusz -- What is a species? / Stephen Jay Gould -- Which of our genes make us human? / Ann Gibbons -- 98% alike? (What our similarity to apes tells us about our understanding of genetics) / Jonathan Marks -- Menu for a monkey / Karen B. Strier -- To catch a colobus / Craig B. Stanford -- Chimps in the wild show stirrings of culture / Gretchen Vogel -- Exploring our basic human nature: are humans inherently violent? / Robert W. Sussman -- The ape that was / Russell L. Ciochon -- Sunset on the savanna / James Shreeve -- Erectus rising / James Shreeve -- The riddle of coexistence / Ann Gibbons. Anthropologists duel over modern human origins / Michael Balter -- The gift of gab / Matt Cartmill -- Differential mortality and the Donner Party disaster / Donald K. Grayson -- The tall and the short of it / Barry Bogin -- Disease in human evolution: the re-emergence of infectious disease in the third epidemiological transition / George J. Armelagos, Kathleen C. Barnes, and James Lin -- The five sexes, revisited / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- An early racial taxonomy from "Systema naturae" (10th ed, 1758) / Carolus Linnaeus -- Science and race / Jonathan Marks -- Who are the Jews? / Jared Diamond -- The third man / Matt Cartmill -- The human genome and our view of ourselves / Svante Pääbo -- Tracking the sexes by their genes / Elizabeth Pennisi -- Evolution and the origins of disease / Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams -- NAGPRA and the future of skeletal research / Jerome C. Rose and Thomas J. Green -- The Stone Age iceman from the Alps: the find and the current status of investigation / Torstein Sjøvold -- A reasonable sleep / Meredith F. Small -- Recovery and identification of civilian victims of war in Croatia / Douglas W. Owsley ... [et al.] -- From Pan to pandemic / Robin A. Weiss and Richard W. Wrangham. |