John Scott Allen - Exploring biological anthropology: the essentials

If youre wondering why you should buy this new edition of Exploring Biological Anthropology, here are 10 good reasons!

1. In this new edition we have moved to the molecular classification system and call humans and our exclusive ancestors hominins , because this is the way that most of the recent literature is constructed.

2. New illustration program that includes more than 50 new anatomically correct bone drawings.

3. New Insights and Advances boxes: , If You Have DNA, Why Bother with Bones, explains the difficulty of using DNA in forensic science.

4. New or revised Innovations boxes: , Symbolism and Human Evolution examines when in human evolution symbolism started to be important for survival.

5. New Visual Summaries of each chapter.

6. has updated information on the human genome and the application of DNA sequence information in a wide range of areas, such as obesity and the treatment of genetic disease.

7. includes information on Darwinius masillae , a new, nearly complete primate from Messel, Germany (nicknamed Ida); contains new coverage of cosmogenic radionuclide dating techniques such as 26Al/ 10Be; and the earth in the Cenozoic section includes updates to the coverage of stable carbon isotope ratios.

8. discusses the implications of more recently published finds of Ardipithecus and the much younger Burtele foot; covers the recent finds of Australopithecus sediba .

9. has new coverage of the recently discovered Gona Pelvis and information on the partial mandible from Sima de Elefante ; updates on the age of the last surviving H. erectus ; and inclusion of a discussion of the Flores hominin.

10. includes new research on the evolution of hominin brain size and shape.

The Essentials

THIRD EDITION

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To Our Parents

After teaching biological anthropology for twenty years, we felt there was a great need for a new textbook that presents the core information, concepts, and theories of biological anthropology in a modern light. Biological anthropology was once called physical anthropology, because decades ago the field was mainly about human anatomy, human fossils, and the study of racial variation. Over the past twenty-five years, the field has evolved into biological anthropology, the evolutionary biology of humankind based on information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, the genetics of both individuals and populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior, among other topics. This, the third edition of Exploring Biological Anthropology, combines up-to-date coverage of the core material with a modern biological approach that includes fields that have become major areas of research by biological anthropologists over the past decade. This core-concepts version of the book is written especially for students needing to obtain a strong grounding in biological anthropology without some of the detail into which our original text delved. We three coauthors conduct our research in the main areas of biological anthropology: the human fossil record (Susan Antn), primate behavior and ecology (Craig Stanford), and human biology and the brain (John Allen). This has allowed us to provide a specialist approach to each of the broad divisions of the field covered by the text. We are biological anthropologists with extensive backgrounds in both biological and social sciences and are both teachers and researchers.