Physical AnthropologyThis introduction to physical anthropology places emphasis on three themes: that anthropology is a holistic discipline; that human beings are an integral part of nature; and our maintenance of a balance with nature can be strengthened by an understanding of our evolutionary past. |
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abnormal adaptations adult afarensis Africa alleles amino acid anatomy animals anthropologists apes Australopithecus baboons behavior blood body bones Bovid brain canine cells Cercopithecidae changes Chapter characteristics chimpanzee chromosomes color cranial cultural Darwin dentition disease early hominids environment Eocene erect bipedalism erectus evolution evolutionary evolved example female Figure fossil record frequencies gene pool genetic genotype genus gibbon gorilla habitats hemoglobin hominids Homo erectus individuals inheritance Lake Turkana lemurs living lower major male mammals mandible material mating meiosis Mendel million B.P. Miocene modern humans molars molecule muscle mutation natural selection Neandertals niches occur offspring Old World Olduvai Gorge organisms pair paleoanthropologists Paleolithic Paranthropus pattern percent phenotype plants population postcranial premolars primates prosimians protein relationship relatively reproductive sexual skeleton skull social species structure tarsiers teeth tion traits Turkana Upper Paleolithic variation World monkeys Zhoukoudian