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Physical anthropology / editedd by Elvio Angeloni.

Contributor(s): Angeloni, Elvio, editor.
Series: Annual editions.Twenty fifth edition. USA : McGraw-Hill Education, ©2016Description: iv, 230 pages ; 27 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 9781259400315 .Subject(s): Physical anthropologyDDC classification: 599.9/P56 Other classification: CAS
Contents:
Unit 1: Evolutionary perspectives : Was Darwin wrong? / David Quammen ; The facts of evolution / Michael Shermer ; Evolution in action / Jonathan Weiner ; America's science problem / Shawn Lawrence Otto ; Why should students learn evolution? / Brian J. Alters and Sandra M. Alters -- Unit 2: Primates : No alpha males allowed / Steve Kemper ; Love in the time of monkeys / Eduardo Fernandez-Duque ; The 2% difference / Robart Sapolsky ; Got culture? / Craig Stanford ; Dim forest, bright chimps / Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Achermann ; Earthly delights / Frans de Waal ; One for all / Frans de Waal ; Friends with benefits / Lauren Brent ; The "It" factor / Gary Stix -- Unit 3: Sex and gender : What are friends for? / Barbara Smuts ; What's love got to do with it?: sex among our closest relatives is a rather open affair / Meredith F. Small ; The double life of women / Annie Murphy Paul ; Powers of two / Blake Edgar ; When do girls rule the womb? / Jennifer Abbasi -- Unit 4: The fossil evidence : Our true dawn / Catherine Brahic ; Welcome to the family / Bernard Wood ; The first cookout / Kate Wong ; Rethinking Neanderthals / Joe Alper ; Neandertal Minds / Kate Wong ; Human hybrids / Michael F. Hammer -- Unit 5: Late hominid evolution : The story in the stones / David Robson ; King of beasts / Lars Werdelin ; The birth of childhood / Ann Gibbons ; The evolution of grandparents / Rachel Caspari ; A bigger, better brain / Maddelena Bearzi and Craig Stanford ; The naked truth / Nina G. Jablonski ; Long live the humans / Heather Pringle ; Searching for the Human Age / Gayathri Vaidyanathan -- Unit 6: Human diversity : Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin ; How real is race?: using anthropology to make sense of human diversity / Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze ; The tall and the short of it / Barry Bogin ; Dead men do tell tales / William R. Maples ; Evolution: why are most of us right-handed? / Jason G. Goldman ; Still evolving (after all these years) / John Hawks -- Unit 7: Living with the past : The perfect plague / Jared Diamond and Nathan Wolfe ; The Inuit paradox / Patricia Gadsby ; The food addiction / Paul J. Kenny ; Curse and blessing of the ghetto / Jared Diamond ; The evolution of diet / Ann Gibbons ; Ironing it out / Sharon Moalem ; Why we help / Martin A. Nowak ; Don't swallow them / Caroline Williams ; The evolution of inequality / Deborah Rogers.
Summary: Designed to provide access to a wide range of articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today, this title features material that is useful for classroom use, including a brief overview for each unit, Learning Outcomes, Critical Thinking questions, and Internet References to accompany each article.
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Unit 1: Evolutionary perspectives : Was Darwin wrong? / David Quammen ; The facts of evolution / Michael Shermer ; Evolution in action / Jonathan Weiner ; America's science problem / Shawn Lawrence Otto ; Why should students learn evolution? / Brian J. Alters and Sandra M. Alters -- Unit 2: Primates : No alpha males allowed / Steve Kemper ; Love in the time of monkeys / Eduardo Fernandez-Duque ; The 2% difference / Robart Sapolsky ; Got culture? / Craig Stanford ; Dim forest, bright chimps / Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Achermann ; Earthly delights / Frans de Waal ; One for all / Frans de Waal ; Friends with benefits / Lauren Brent ; The "It" factor / Gary Stix -- Unit 3: Sex and gender : What are friends for? / Barbara Smuts ; What's love got to do with it?: sex among our closest relatives is a rather open affair / Meredith F. Small ; The double life of women / Annie Murphy Paul ; Powers of two / Blake Edgar ; When do girls rule the womb? / Jennifer Abbasi -- Unit 4: The fossil evidence : Our true dawn / Catherine Brahic ; Welcome to the family / Bernard Wood ; The first cookout / Kate Wong ; Rethinking Neanderthals / Joe Alper ; Neandertal Minds / Kate Wong ; Human hybrids / Michael F. Hammer -- Unit 5: Late hominid evolution : The story in the stones / David Robson ; King of beasts / Lars Werdelin ; The birth of childhood / Ann Gibbons ; The evolution of grandparents / Rachel Caspari ; A bigger, better brain / Maddelena Bearzi and Craig Stanford ; The naked truth / Nina G. Jablonski ; Long live the humans / Heather Pringle ; Searching for the Human Age / Gayathri Vaidyanathan -- Unit 6: Human diversity : Skin deep / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin ; How real is race?: using anthropology to make sense of human diversity / Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze ; The tall and the short of it / Barry Bogin ; Dead men do tell tales / William R. Maples ; Evolution: why are most of us right-handed? / Jason G. Goldman ; Still evolving (after all these years) / John Hawks -- Unit 7: Living with the past : The perfect plague / Jared Diamond and Nathan Wolfe ; The Inuit paradox / Patricia Gadsby ; The food addiction / Paul J. Kenny ; Curse and blessing of the ghetto / Jared Diamond ; The evolution of diet / Ann Gibbons ; Ironing it out / Sharon Moalem ; Why we help / Martin A. Nowak ; Don't swallow them / Caroline Williams ; The evolution of inequality / Deborah Rogers.

Designed to provide access to a wide range of articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today, this title features material that is useful for classroom use, including a brief overview for each unit, Learning Outcomes, Critical Thinking questions, and Internet References to accompany each article.

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