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HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY
BIOLOGY
--DEFINING PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
What Are Humans?
What Is Anthropology?
Culture
The Subdiscipline of Physical Anthropology
Biological Continuity
Anthropological Perspective
Science as a Way of Understanding
- - THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural and Historical Antecedents of Science in Europe
Christianity
Mohammedanism
Renaissance
The Beginnings of Evolutionary Thought
Development of Classification Systems
The Birth of Geology
The Beginnings of Archaeology
The Idea of Selection
Darwin
Wallace
History of Physical Anthropology
-- REPRODUCTION
Mating and birth seasons
Mating seasons and reproductive physiology
Chromosomes
Genes: Mendelian models for heredity
Mendel
Castle-Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
ABO Blood Groups
Genetic Polymorphisms
Gene interaction
Linkage
Non-Mendelian traits
Nucleic acids and the genetic code
The chemistry of life
Energy
Amino acids and proteins
Translation of the DNA code to phenotype
Hemoglobin
Non-nuclear nucleic acid
Genetic engineering, embryo transplants, and clones
- -EVOLUTION AS A PROCESS
Synthetic Theory of Evolution
Selection
Polymorphisms and Selection
Resistance to Disease
Mutation
Cancer, Mutagens, and the Immune system
Genetic drift
Isolation and Gene flow
Evolution: the current synthesis
Adaptation
Speciation and adaptive radiation
Species
Classification
Subspecies
The Mendelian Population
- HUMAN DIVERSITY
Race
History of the race concept
Political Definitions of Race
Racism
Adaptive Significance of Race
The Human Life Cycle
Growth and Development
Diet and Growth
Altitude Stress
Other Disturbances of Growth
Senescence
Adaptability
Temperature Extremes
Solar Radiation
Altitude
Undernutrition
Homeostasis
Hormones and Energetics
Respiration
Immunology
OUR PLACE IN NATURE
-- ECOLOGY
The Subversive and Conservative Science of Human Ecology
Population Growth
Carrying Capacity
Interactions
What Can We Do?
Sustainable development and sustainable agriculture
Ecology and Disease
Water Treatment
AIDS
Radiation
- -PRIMATE ANATOMY
Human skeletal and dental anatomy
Skeletal maturation
Locomotor anatomy
Primate vision
Forensic Anthropology
Estimating the Age of the Individual
Estimating the Gender of the Individual
Estimating the Race of the Individual
Discriminant Functions
Estimation of Stature
- -PRIMATES AS AN ADAPTIVE ARRAY
Primates
Strepsirhini
Haplorhini
Prosimii
Chiromyiformes
Daubentoniidae
Lemuriformes
Lemuroidea
Indriidae
Lemuridae
Lorisoidea
Lorisinae
Tarsiiformes
Tarsiidae
Anthropoidea
Platyrrhini
Ceboidea
Cebidae
Callithricidae
Catarrhini
Cercopithecoidea
Cercopithecidae
Colobidae
Hominoidea
Hylobatidae
Pongidae
Hominidae
-- PRIMATE BEHAVIOR
What Does It Mean to Be Social?
Kinship Recognition
Altruism
The Selfish Gene and an Imaginary Social Group
Roles
Status
Primate Socioecology
Society
--MESSAGES FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
The Impact of Ape Communication on Science
Animals and Ethics
PRIMATE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
- GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
Geochronology
Relative Dates by Superposition
Relative Dates by Biostratigraphy
Relative Dates by Chemistry
Absolute Dating by Radiometric Decay
Thermoluminescence
Paleomagnetic Dating
Molecular Clocks
Dating by Typology
Other Dating Methods
Rules for Interpretation of the Fossil Record
Historical Geology
Planetary Origins
The Early Geological History of the Earth
Precambrian
Paleozoic Era
Mesozoic Era
Cenozoic Era
Extinctions
Migrating Continents
-- THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOSSIL RECORD
There is a Prehistory
Prehistoric Humans Have Modern Anatomy and Abilities
Another Human Species is Found
The First Link: A Fossil Clearly Less Than Human
A Fake Ancestor to Fit Expectations
Ape men: Humans with Ape Sized Brains
Exploration Between the World Wars
The Demise of Eoanthropus
Radiometric Dating Provides a Time Scale
-- EVOLUTION OF PRIMATES
Nonhuman Primates
Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Humans
Ardipithecus
Ardipithecus ramidus
Australopithecus
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus ramidus
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus robustus
Australopithecus boisei
Homo
Homo habilis
Pleistocene Humans
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens soloensis
Homo sapiens rhodesiensis
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens sapiens
-- RECONSTRUCTING HUMAN EVOLUTION
Molecular Evidence of Primate Evolution
Electrophoresis
Immunodiffusion
Microcomplement fixation
DNA Hybridization
Amino Acid Sequences
DNA Fingerprinting
Mitochondrial DNA
Nuclear DNA
Chromosomes
Non-molecular Phylogenetic Trees
Models of Human Evolution
The First Human Adaptive Radiation - Bipedal Pongids
The Second Human Adaptive Radiation - Tools and
Material Culture
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans (H. sapiens
sapiens)
MRE
RAE
AES
RLE
- -PRIMATE MENTAL EVOLUTION
Primate Precursor
The Third Human Radiation - Speech
Adaptive Features of Cultural Systems
Value Systems
Culture
Contrasts Between Culture and Species
The Anthropologist's Dilemma
The Diversity of Human Life ways
Domestication of Plants and Animals
Life ways
Rise of Complex Societies
Value Systems
Futures
Postscript
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