{"product_id":"a-companion-to-biological-anthropology-isbn-9781119828044","title":"A Companion to Biological Anthropology","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Companion to Biological Anthropology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent years. Advances in DNA research, behavioral anthropology, nutrition science, and other fields are transforming our understanding of what makes us human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Biological Anthropology \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a timely and comprehensive account of the foundational concepts, historical development, current trends, and future directions of the discipline. Authoritative yet accessible, this field-defining reference work brings together 37 chapters by established and younger scholars on the biological and evolutionary components of the study of human development. The authors discuss all facets of contemporary biological anthropology including systematics and taxonomy, population and molecular genetics, human biology and functional adaptation, early primate evolution, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpdated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic disease outbreaks, global inequalities, migration and health, resource access and population growth, recent primate behavior research, the fossil record of primates and humans, and much more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students in biological anthropology, geosciences, ancient and modern disease, bone biology, biogeochemistry, behavioral ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClark Spencer Larsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: History 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael A. Little and Jane E. Buikstra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Present and the Living 39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Evolution: What It Means and How We Know 41\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present 55\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexis Uluutku and Bernard Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations 73\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn H. Relethford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation 87\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDennis H. O’Rourke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology 103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRachel Caspari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence 122\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas E. Crews and Barry Bogin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Climate-Related Human Biological Variation 140\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCynthia M. Beall \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLisa Sattenspiel and Carolyn Orbann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of theGlobal Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases 184\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher W. Kuzawa and Melissa B. Manus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Ancient DNA and Disease 199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnne Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology 210\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eC. Eduardo Guerra Amorim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Demography, Including Paleodemography 223\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLyle W. Konigsberg George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition 244\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDarna L. Dufour and Barbara A. Piperata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving? 262\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFabian Crespo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Primates Defined 277\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eW. Scott McGraw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation 300\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKaren B. Strier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example 314\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames F. O’Connell and Kristen Hawkes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates 329\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElaine N. Miller and Chet C. Sherwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Past and the Dead 345\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology 347\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLuis L. Cabo, Dennis C. Dirkmaat, and Andrea M. Zurek-Ost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order 365\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary T. Silcox and Sergi López-Torres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Catarrhine Origins and Evolution 381\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid R. Begun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins 400\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eScott W. Simpson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals 421\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eG. Philip Rightmire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Subspecies: The Genetic\/Genomic Revolution inPaleoanthropology 440\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFred H. Smith and Whitney M. Karriger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Bioarchaeology: Transformations in Lifestyle, Morbidity, and Mortality 458\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge R. Milner and Clark Spencer Larsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Paleopathology: A Twenty-first Century Perspective 474\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane E. Buikstra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Forensic Anthropology: Current Issues 494\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas H. Ubelaker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Diet reconstruction and Ecology 510\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret J. Schoeninger and Laurie J. Reitsema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Current Concepts in Bone Biology 527\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary E. Cole, James H. Gosman, and Samuel D. Stout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Deducing Attributes of Dental Growth and Development from Fossil Hominin Teeth 544\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDebbie Guatelli-Steinberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Skull: Function – New Directions 559\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eQian Wang and Rachel A. Menegaz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been 572\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher W. Schmidt and Peter S. Ungar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Primate Locomotion: A Comparative and Developmental Perspective 587\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael C. Granatosky and Jesse W. Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Teaching Biological Anthropology: Pedagogy of Human Evolution and Human Variation 603\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBriana Pobiner \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 622\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCLARK SPENCER LARSEN \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State University, USA. He is the founding editor of the book series \u003ci\u003eBioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past \u003c\/i\u003eand has served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Over the course of his career, he has authored and edited more than 35 books and monographs, including \u003ci\u003eBioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and\u003ci\u003e Our Origins: Discovering Biological Anthropology, Fifth Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), and was the Editor-in-Chief of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology.\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Companion to Biological Anthropology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent years. Advances in DNA research, behavioral anthropology, nutrition science, and other fields are transforming our understanding of what makes us human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Biological Anthropology \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a timely and comprehensive account of the foundational concepts, historical development, current trends, and future directions of the discipline. Authoritative yet accessible, this field-defining reference work brings together 37 chapters by established and younger scholars on the biological and evolutionary components of the study of human development. The authors discuss all facets of contemporary biological anthropology including systematics and taxonomy, population and molecular genetics, human biology and functional adaptation, early primate evolution, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpdated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic disease outbreaks, global inequalities, migration and health, resource access and population growth, recent primate behavior research, the fossil record of primates and humans, and much more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students in biological anthropology, geosciences, ancient and modern disease, bone biology, biogeochemistry, behavioral ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988602798309,"sku":"NP9781119828044","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119828044.jpg?v=1761780932","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-biological-anthropology-isbn-9781119828044","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}