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A Companion to Biological Anthropology
Clark Spencer Larsen (Edited by)
9781119828044, Wiley
Hardback, published 13 April 2023
672 pages
24.4 x 17 x 4.4 cm, 1.418 kg
A Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent years. Advances in DNA research, behavioral anthropology, nutrition science, and other fields are transforming our understanding of what makes us human. A Companion to Biological Anthropology provides a timely and comprehensive account of the foundational concepts, historical development, current trends, and future directions of the discipline. Authoritative yet accessible, this field-defining reference work brings together 37 chapters by established and younger scholars on the biological and evolutionary components of the study of human development. The authors discuss all facets of contemporary biological anthropology including systematics and taxonomy, population and molecular genetics, human biology and functional adaptation, early primate evolution, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics. Updated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic disease outbreaks, global inequalities, migration and health, resource access and population growth, recent primate behavior research, the fossil record of primates and humans, and much more. A Companion to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students in biological anthropology, geosciences, ancient and modern disease, bone biology, biogeochemistry, behavioral ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines.
Notes on Contributors x 1 The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology 1 Part I: History 13 2 Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology 15 Part II: The Present and the Living 39 3 Evolution: What It Means and How We Know 41 4 Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present 55 5 Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations 73 6 Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation 87 7 Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology 103 8 Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence 122 9 Climate-Related Human Biological Variation 140 10 Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics 167 11 Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of theGlobal Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases 184 12 Ancient DNA and Disease 199 13 Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology 210 14 Demography, Including Paleodemography 223 15 Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition 244 16 Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving? 262 17 Primates Defined 277 18 Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation 300 19 Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example 314 20 Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates 329 Part III: The Past and the Dead 345 21 Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology 347 22 Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order 365 23 Catarrhine Origins and Evolution 381 24 The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins 400 25 Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals 421 26 Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Subspecies: The Genetic/Genomic Revolution inPaleoanthropology 440 27 Bioarchaeology: Transformations in Lifestyle, Morbidity, and Mortality 458 28 Paleopathology: A Twenty-first Century Perspective 474 29 Forensic Anthropology: Current Issues 494 30 Diet reconstruction and Ecology 510 31 Current Concepts in Bone Biology 527 32 Deducing Attributes of Dental Growth and Development from Fossil Hominin Teeth 544 33 Skull: Function – New Directions 559 34 Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been 572 35 Primate Locomotion: A Comparative and Developmental Perspective 587 36 Teaching Biological Anthropology: Pedagogy of Human Evolution and Human Variation 603 Index 622
Acknowledgments xx
Foreword xxii
Clark Spencer Larsen
Michael A. Little and Jane E. Buikstra
Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan
Alexis Uluutku and Bernard Wood
John H. Relethford
Dennis H. O'Rourke
Rachel Caspari
Douglas E. Crews and Barry Bogin
Cynthia M. Beall
Lisa Sattenspiel and Carolyn Orbann
Christopher W. Kuzawa and Melissa B. Manus
Anne Stone
C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim
Lyle W. Konigsberg George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen
Darna L. Dufour and Barbara A. Piperata
Fabian Crespo
W. Scott McGraw
Karen B. Strier
James F. O’Connell and Kristen Hawkes
Elaine N. Miller and Chet C. Sherwood
Luis L. Cabo, Dennis C. Dirkmaat, and Andrea M. Zurek-Ost
Mary T. Silcox and Sergi López-Torres
David R. Begun
Scott W. Simpson
G. Philip Rightmire
Fred H. Smith and Whitney M. Karriger
George R. Milner and Clark Spencer Larsen
Jane E. Buikstra
Douglas H. Ubelaker
Margaret J. Schoeninger and Laurie J. Reitsema
Mary E. Cole, James H. Gosman, and Samuel D. Stout
Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
Qian Wang and Rachel A. Menegaz
Christopher W. Schmidt and Peter S. Ungar
Michael C. Granatosky and Jesse W. Young
Briana Pobiner
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
