A Companion to Biological Anthropology

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A Companion to Biological Anthropology offers a comprehensive exploration of biological anthropology, covering human evolution, variation, and our relationships with primate relatives. Featuring 37 chapters by expert scholars, it addresses topics such as genetics, functional adaptation, paleoanthropology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics, updated to reflect recent discoveries and current debates.
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Ideal for advanced students and researchers in biological anthropology, geosciences, forensic anthropology, nutritional anthropology, and related fields seeking an authoritative and up-to-date reference.

"The fundamental subject matter of biological (formerly physical) anthropology focuses on human origins and human variation. Such interests date back to antiquity, but systematic observations and publications began with the 18th century Natural Philosophers of the Enlightenment, such as George-Louis Leclerk, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) and James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799)"--

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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, behavioural 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 behaviour 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, behavioural ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119828044

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 44.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 1418g

Pages: 672

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About the Author

CLARK SPENCER LARSEN is Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State University, USA. He is the founding editor of the book series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past and has served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Over the course of his career, he has authored and edited more than 35 books and monographs, including Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton, Second Edition (2015) and Our Origins: Discovering Biological Anthropology, Fifth Edition (2020), and was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.