Written by a professor who has spent eleven years teaching and practicing biological anthropology and realizes its signifance to everyday life. The issues of "natural" behavior, evolution, race/racism, and gender are central facets in United States' society. Biological anthropology introduces students to evolutionary theory, our bio-history, and provides a structural context for discussions about human morphological and behavioral variation and adaptation.
This textbook for introductory Biological Anthropology course contextualizes the information and/or presents it in such a way that the students can utilize it in their own lives or access it in a medium and language familiar to them.
This textbook seeks to meld the traditional and the new, to create a textbook/web hybrid from the ground up facilitating access to biological anthropological knowledge.
The field is growing at a fantastic rate, multiple disciplines (genomics, epidemiology, physiology, anatomy, paleoanthropology, primatology for example) currently contribute to its knowledge base.
The author's goal is to create a book that has the core information, access to more in-depth details and is engaging for students and faculty alike.
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education