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Introduction for ANTH 203: Culture and Biology
Salinda Hess
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Acknowledgements
An Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Katie Nelson; Lara Braff; Beth Shook; and Kelsie Aguilera
1. Anthropologists as Scientists
Beth Shook; Katie Nelson; Kelsie Aguilera; and Lara Braff
2. A History of Evolutionary Thought
Joylin Namie
3. Social and Biopolitical Dimensions of Evolutionary Thinking
Adam P. Johnson and Jonathan Marks
4. Molecular Biology and Genetics
Hayley Mann
5. Forces of Evolution
Andrea J. Alveshere
6. Meet the Living Primates
Stephanie Etting
7. Primate Ecology and Behaviour
Karin Enstam Jaffe
8. Stones and Bones: Studying the Fossil Record
Kara Jones and Sarah S. King
9. Primate Evolution
Jonathan M. G. Perry and Stephanie L. Canington
10. Early Hominins
Lindsay Hunter; Navashni Naidoo; Kerryn Warren; and Silindokuhle Mavuso
11. Early Members of the Genus Homo
Bonnie Yoshida-Levine
12. Archaic Homo
Amanda Wolcott Paskey and AnnMarie Beasley Cisneros
13. Modern Homo sapiens
Keith Chan
14. Race and Human Variation
Michael B. C. Rivera
15. Human Variation: An Adaptive Significance Approach
Leslie E. Fitzpatrick
16. Forensic Anthropology
Ashley Kendell; Alex Perrone; and Colleen Milligan
17. Contemporary Topics: Human Biology and Health
Authors and editors
Student Contributors
Appendix
Appendix A: Osteology
Appendix B: Primate Conservation
Appendix C: Human Behavioral Ecology
Appendix D: Ancient DNA
Instructors’ Guide for Explorations
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