ISBN:
9781119828068
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9781119828051
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9781119828075
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 640 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Second edition
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell companions to anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A companion to biological anthropology
DDC:
573
Keywords:
Physical anthropology
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Humanbiologie
Abstract:
Intro -- A Companion to Biological Anthropology -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology -- Part I: History -- 2 Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology -- Part II: The Present and the Living -- 3 Evolution: What It Means and How We Know -- 4 Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present -- 5 Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations -- 6 Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation -- 7 Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology -- 8 Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence -- 9 Climate-Related Human Biological Variation -- 10 Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics -- 11 Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of the Global Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases -- 12 Ancient DNA and Disease -- 13 Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology -- 14 Demography, Including Paleodemography -- 15 Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition -- 16 Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving? -- 17 Primates Defined -- 18 Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation -- 19 Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example -- 20 Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates -- Part III: The Past and the Dead -- 21 Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology -- 22 Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order -- 23 Catarrhine Origins and Evolution -- 24 The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins -- 25 Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals.
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