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.
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