Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials

"Discover the best of biological anthropology: From its earliest foundations toits most current innovations." Over the past 40 years, the study of biological anthropologyhas rapidly evolved from focusing on just physical anthropology to including the study of the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics ofindividuals and populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior. The 3rd edition of "Exploring Biological Anthropology" combines the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the foundations of the field with modern innovations and discoveries. A better teaching and learning experience
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Craig Stanford is co-director of the Jane Goodall Primate Research Center and associate professor at the department of anthropology, University of Southern California. His previous books are: Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature (Basic, 2001), The Hunting Apes: Meat-easting and the Origins of Human Behavior (Princeton U. Press,1999), and Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey (Harvard U. Press, 1998).