Jurmain, Robert

Essentials of physical anthropology / by Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Harry Nelson and Wenda Trevathan. - Third edition - U.S.A: Wadsworth Publishing Company, c1997. - xvi, 413p. ill.; 24.4cm.

Includes appendices, glossary, bibliography and index

Chapter 1. Introduction --2. The development of evolutionary theory --3. The biological basis of life --4. Principles of inheritance --5. Evolution in modern human populations --6. Approaches to human variation and adaption --7. Growth and development --8. An overview of living primates --9. Primate behavior --10. Mammalian/primate evolutionary history --11. Hominid origins --12. early hominids: organization and interpretation --13. Homo erectus --14. Neandertals and other archaic homo sapiens --15. Homo sapiens sapiens --16. Lessons from the past, lesson for the future.

0-534-53307-8

BCir. 599.9 / Es745 1997