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- 175420
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- ANT-103: Physical/Biological Anthropology
- This book was compiled specifically for Lake Tahoe Community College's Rising Scholars Program. This course will examine the physical and biological nature of the human species including hominin evolution, genetics and processes of human variation, paleoanthropology, primatology, forms of human adaptation, disease, demography, and forensic anthropology. The course will develop these topics using an evolutionary, scientific, and bio-cultural approach. Please return to the program if found.
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- Chapter 2: Evolution
- Chapter 3: Molecular Biology and Genetics
- Chapter 4: Forces of Evolution
- Chapter 5: Meet the Living Primates
- Chapter 6: Primate Ecology and Behavior
- Chapter 7: Understanding the Fossil Context
- Chapter 8: Primate Evolution
- Chapter 9: Early Hominins
- Chapter 10: Early Members of the Genus Homo
- Chapter 11: Archaic Homo
- Chapter 12: Modern Homo sapiens
- Chapter 13: Race and Human Variation
- Chapter 14: Human Variation and An Adaptive Significance Approach
- Chapter 15: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology
- Chapter 16: Contemporary Topics - Human Biology and Health
- Chapter 17: Appendix A- Osteology
- Chapter 18: Appendix B- Primate Conservation
- Chapter 19: Appendix C- Human Behavioral Ecology
- Back Matter
- PSY-103: Adult Development
- This course completes the psychology series on human development which started with Child and Adolescent Development. The course covers the developmental sequence from young adulthood to late adulthood. These stages of adult development will be studied from physical, social, emotional, and cognitive perspectives. The course will also include issues of death and bereavement. Please return to the Lake Tahoe Community College Rising Scholar Program if found.