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Cengage Advantage Books: Understanding Humans : An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology by Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore and Barry Lewis (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWadsworth

ISBN-100495604747

ISBN-139780495604747

eBay Product ID (ePID)70192223

Product Key Features

Number of Pages512 Pages

Publication NameCengage Advantage Books: Understanding Humans : An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

SubjectSocial Science / Archaeology, General, Anthropology / Physical, Anthropology / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Juvenile Nonfiction

AuthorRobert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Barry Lewis

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight34.5 Oz

Item Length10.7 in

Item Width8.4 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number10

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2008-937639

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal599.9

Table Of ContentANTHROPOLOGY.1. Introduction to Anthropology.HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION.2. The Development of Evolutionary Theory.3. Heredity and Evolution.4. Human Variation and Adaptation.5. Macroevolution: Processes of Vertebrate and Mammalian Evolution.PRIMATES.6. An Overview of the Primates.7. Primate Behavior.PALEOANTHROPOLOGY/FOSSIL HOMININS.8. Understanding the Past: Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Methods.9. Hominin Origins.10. The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries.11. Premodern Humans.12. The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans.ARCHAEOLOGY.13. Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers.14. Food Production.15. The First Civilizations.Appendix A: Atlas of Primate Skeletal Anatomy.Appendix B: Summary of Early Hominin Fossil Finds from Africa.Appendix C: Population Genetics.

SynopsisUNDERSTANDING HUMANS: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY shows students how anthropologists and archaeologists go about their work as they study human evolution, living nonhuman primates, human adaptation and variation, the origin and dispersal of modern humans, food production, the first civilizations of the Old and New Worlds, and so much more. "At a Glance" sections and "Focus Questions" help students better understand the material and study more effectively for exams.

LC Classification NumberGN60.L4495 2010