Our Origins (Fifth Edition)

Cover
Half-title Page
Publisher’s Notice
Frontispiece
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
Basic Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Two-Page Spreads
To the Instructor
To the Student
Chapter 1: What Is Biological Anthropology?
1.1 What Is Anthropology?
1.2 What Is Biological Anthropology?
1.3 What Makes Humans So Different from Other Animals? The Six Steps to Humanness
1.4 How We Know What We Know: The Scientific Method
Chapter 1 Review
Part I: The Present: Foundation for the Past
Chapter 2: Evolution: Constructing a Fundamental Scientific Theory
2.1 The Theory of Evolution: The Context for Darwin
2.2 The Theory of Evolution: Darwin’s Contribution
2.3 Since Darwin: Mechanisms of Inheritance, the Evolutionary Synthesis, and the Discovery of DNA
Chapter 2 Review
Chapter 3: Genetics and Genomics: Reproducing Life and Producing Variation
3.1 The Cell: Its Role in Reproducing Life and Producing Variation
3.2 The DNA Molecule: The Code for Life
3.3 The DNA Molecule: Replicating the Code
3.4 Mitosis: Production of Identical Somatic Cells
3.5 Meiosis: Production of Gametes (Sex Cells)
3.6 Producing Proteins: The Other Function of DNA
3.7 Genes: Structural and Regulatory
3.8 Polymorphisms: Variations in Specific Genes
3.9 The Human Genome: A Critical Window Onto Human Variation
Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 4: Genes and Their Evolution: Population Genetics
4.1 Demes, Reproductive Isolation, and Species
4.2 Hardy–Weinberg Law: Testing the Conditions of Genetic Equilibrium
4.3 Mutation: The Only Source of New Alleles
4.4 Natural Selection: Advantageous Characteristics, Survival, and Reproduction
4.5 Genetic Drift: Genetic Change Due to Chance
4.6 Gene Flow: Spread of Genes across Population Boundaries
Chapter 4 Review
Chapter 5: Biology in the Present: Living People
5.1 Is Race a Valid, Biologically Meaningful Concept?
5.2 Life History: Growth and Development
5.3 Adaptation: Meeting the Challenges of Living
Chapter 5 Review
Chapter 6: Biology in the Present: The Other Living Primates
6.1 What Is a Primate?
6.2 What Are the Kinds of Primates?
Chapter 6 Review
Chapter 7: Primate Sociality, Social Behavior, and Culture
7.1 Primate Societies: Diverse, Complex, Long-Lasting
7.2 Getting Food
7.3 Acquiring Resources and Transmitting Knowledge: Got Culture?
7.4 Vocal and Nonvocal Communication Is Fundamental Behavior in Primate Societies
Chapter 7 Review
Part II: The Past: Evidence for the Present
Chapter 8: Fossils and Their Place in Time and Nature
8.1 Fossils: Memories of the Biological Past
8.2 Just How Old Is the Past?
8.3 Reconstruction of Ancient Environments and Landscapes
Chapter 8 Review
Chapter 9: Primate Origins and Evolution: The First 50 Million Years
9.1 Why Did Primates Emerge?
9.2 The First True Primate: Visual, Tree-Dwelling, Agile, Smart Primates in the Paleocene?
9.3 Early Anthropoids Evolve and Thrive
9.4 Coming to America: Origin of New World Higher Primates
9.5 Apes Begin in Africa and Dominate the Miocene Primate World
9.6 Apes Leave Africa: On to New Habitats and New Adaptations
9.7 Apes Return to Africa?
9.8 Monkeys on the Move
Chapter 9 Review
Chapter 10: Early Hominin Origins and Evolution: The Roots of Humanity
10.1 What Is a Hominin?
10.2 Why Did Hominins Emerge?
10.3 What Were the First Hominins?
Chapter 10 Review
Chapter 11: The Origins and Evolution of Early Homo
11.1 Homo habilis: The First Species of the Genus Homo
11.2 Homo erectus: Early Homo Goes Global
11.3 Expect the Unexpected in Hominin Evolution: Two Surprises in the Homo Lineage
Chapter 11 Review
Chapter 12: The Origins, Evolution, and Dispersal of Modern People
12.1 What Is So Modern about Modern Humans?
12.2 Modern Homo sapiens: Single Origin and Global Dispersal or Regional Continuity?
12.3 What Do Homo sapiens Fossils Tell Us about Modern Human Origins?
12.4 How Has the Biological Variation in Fossil Homo sapiens Been Interpreted?
12.5 Assimilation Model for Modern Human Variation: Neandertals Are Still with Us
12.6 Modern Humans’ Other Migrations: Colonization of Australia, the Pacific, and the Americas
Chapter 12 Review
Chapter 13: Our Past 10,000 Years: Agriculture, Population, Biology
13.1 The Agricultural Revolution: New Foods and New Adaptations
13.2 Agriculture: An Adaptive Trade-Off
13.3 How Did Agriculture Affect Human Biology?
13.4 If It Is So Bad for You, Why Farm?
Chapter 13 Review
Part III: The Future: The Shape of Things to Come
Chapter 14: Evolution: Today and Tomorrow
14.1 The Forces of Change: A Warming Planet, Increasing Population, and Shifting Technology
14.2 Our Ongoing Evolution
14.3 Who Will We Be Tomorrow?
Chapter 14 Review
Study Quiz Answers
Appendix: The Skeleton
Glossary
Glossary of Place Names
Bibliography
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index