A Companion to Biological Anthropology (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology)

A Companion to Biological Anthropology
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1 The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology
Part I: History
	2 Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology
Part II: The Present and the Living
	3 Evolution: What It Means and How We Know
	4 Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present
	5 Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations
	6 Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation
	7 Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology
	8 Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence
	9 Climate-Related Human Biological Variation
	10 Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics
	11 Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of the Global Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases
	12 Ancient DNA and Disease
	13 Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology
	14 Demography, Including Paleodemography
	15 Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition
	16 Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving?
	17 Primates Defined
	18 Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation
	19 Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example
	20 Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates
Part III: The Past and the Dead
	21 Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology
	22 Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order
	23 Catarrhine Origins and Evolution
	24 The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins
	25 Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals
	26 Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Subspecies: The Genetic/Genomic Revolution in Paleoanthropology
	27 Bioarchaeology: Transformations in Lifestyle, Morbidity, and Mortality
	28 Paleopathology: A Twenty-first Century Perspective
	29 Forensic Anthropology: Current Issues
	30 Diet reconstruction and Ecology
	31 Current Concepts in Bone Biology
	32 Deducing Attributes of Dental Growth and Development from Fossil Hominin Teeth
	33 Skull: Function – New Directions
	34 Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been
	35 Primate Locomotion: A Comparative and Developmental Perspective
	36 Teaching Biological Anthropology: Pedagogy of Human Evolution and Human Variation
Index