ANTH 1: Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Taylor)
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This course examines the biological basis of being human. It compares us with our primate relatives, traces the evolution of our species from 4 million-year-old australopithecines, and accounts for the great anatomical and biochemical diversity among modern human populations.
Front Matter
1: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
2: Evolution
3: Molecular Biology and Genetics
4: Forces of Evolution
5: Meet the Living Primates
6: Primate Ecology
7: Understanding the Fossil Context
8: Primate Evolution
9: Early Hominins
10: Early Members of the Genus Homo
11: Archaic Homo
12: Modern Homo sapiens
13: Race and Human Variation
14: Human Variation- An Adaptive Significance Approach
15: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology
16: Human Biology and Health
17: Osteology
18: Primate Conversation
19: Human Behavioral Ecology
Back Matter
Thumbnail: The original complete skull (without upper teeth and mandible) of a 2,1 million years old Australopithecus africanus specimen so-called "Mrs. Ples" (catalogue number STS 5, Sterkfontein cave, hominid fossil number 5), discovered in South Africa. Collection of the Transvaal Museum, Northern Flagship Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.(CC BY-SA 3.0; José Braga; Didier Descouens via Wikipedia)