TY - BOOK TI - Biological anthropology: the natural history of humankind SN - 9780205150687 U1 - 599.9 PY - 2013/// CY - Boston PB - Pearson N1 - Introduction: What is biological anthropology? -- pt. 1: Mechanisms of evolution. Origins of evolutionary thought -- Genetics : cells and molecules -- Genetics : from genotype to phenotype -- The forces of evolution and the formation of species -- Human variation : evolution, adaptation, and adaptability -- pt. 2: Primates. The primates -- Primate behavior -- pt. 3: Paleontology and primate evolution. Fossils in geological context -- Origin of primates -- Becoming human : the ape-hominin transition -- pt. 4: The human fossil record. Early hominins -- Origin and evolution of the genus Homo -- Archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertals -- The emergence and dispersal of Homo sapiens -- pt. 5: New frontiers in biological anthropology. Evolution of the brain and language -- Biomedical anthropology -- The evolution of human behavior -- Bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology -- Appendix A: Overview of the brain -- Appendix B: Primate and human comparative anatomy -- Appendix C: The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium -- Appendix D: Metric-imperial conversions ER -