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Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind Paperback – 22 February 2005

by Craig Stanford (Author), John S. Allen (Author), Susan C. Antón (Author)

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For undergraduate introductory physical anthropology, biological anthropology or human origins courses.

The only book that integrates the foundations and the most current innovations in the field from the ground up.

Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly evolved from the study of physical anthropology into biological anthropology, incorporating the evolutionary biology of humankind based on information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics of individuals and of populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior . Stanford combines the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the foundations of the field with the modern innovations and discoveries.

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ISBN-10

0131828924
ISBN-13

978-0131828926
Edition

1st
Publisher

Pearson
Publication date

22 February 2005
Language

English
Dimensions

21.59 x 1.91 x 27.31 cm
Print length

624 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 1st edition (22 February 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0131828924
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0131828926
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 1.91 x 27.31 cm

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John S. Allen
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JOHN ALLEN is a neuroanthropologist and research scientist at the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. For the past 15 years, his research has focused on human structural brain anatomy and the evolution of the brain. Prior to that, he conducted medical and cognitive anthropology field work in Japan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Palau. The author of several trade books and textbooks, he lives near Lexington, Kentucky.
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Craig B. Stanford
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Dr. Craig Stanford is a well-known expert on the behavior, ecology and conservation of primates and other animals, and on the biological roots of human behavior. He is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Stanford has conducted field research on primates, especially our close relatives the chimpanzee and mountain gorilla, and other animals for more than 30 years in Africa and Asia. He is known for his research on chimpanzee in collaboration with Jane Goodall, and for his work on the ecological relationship between chimpanzee and gorillas in forests where the two apes occur together. He is also a reptile biologist and Chair of the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, and has conducted or supervised studies of turtles and tortoises in Asia and Latin America. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards for both his research and writing, and is a frequent guest on radio and tv.
Stanford is the author of 175 scholarly and popular articles on animal behavior and human nature topics, including the widely used text book Biological Anthropology. Stanford has recently published Unnatural Habitat (Heyday Books 2024) about the ecosystem of Southern California, and The New Chimpanzee (Harvard University Press 2018) about the race against extinction for the great apes. He also has a forthcoming book, The Turtle Crisis, about the threats to the survival of the world's turtles and tortoises.
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Zelemont

Never thought I would like this subject.

Reviewed in the United States on 6 September 2011

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It has been at least three years since I used this textbook in class at UIC, and even though I was generally disappointed in the class due to a professor who seemed annoyed to have to take a break from research to teach, I did well in the class because of how well this book covered the subject from the basics of DNA to the evolution of man. I majored in business and don't work anywhere near the field of Anthropology, but I still love to read up on the subject and watch every documentary I can find that furthers my knowledge of biological anthropology, and I probably wouldn't have any interest in learning about where we come from if it wasn't for this book.

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Book came promptly and is exactly what I needed for class! Having gotten interested in Anthropology my first year at college, I plan on going far with this and this book can help me with that.