Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Edition: 1st Edition January 27, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0767424263
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0767424264
• Book Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 4.6 pounds

Product Description
Written by a professor who has spent eleven years teaching and practicing biological anthropology and who takes care to relate its significance to everyday life, this new text focuses on central contemporary issues: genetics and genomics, "natural" behavior, evolution, and human variation. The book tells the story of biological anthropology and evolutionary theory, our bio-history, in a way that encourages students to use it in their own lives and to think critically about the issues explored.

"This textbook seeks to meld the traditional and the new, to create a textbook/web hybrid from the ground up, facilitating access to biological anthropological knowledge. The field is growing at a fantastic rate; multiple disciplines (genomics, epidemiology, physiology, anatomy, paleoanthropology, and primatology, for example) currently contribute to its knowledge base. My goal is to create a book that has the core information, access to more in-depth details, and is engaging for students and faculty alike." -- Agustin Fuentes --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About The Author
Agust�n Fuentes completed a B.A. in Zoology and Anthropology, and an M.A.And Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include the evolution of social complexity in human and primate societies, conflict negotiation across primates, including humans, and reproductive behavior and ecology. He is also interested in issues of human-nonhuman primate interactions, disease and pathogen transfer. Fuentes� recent work includes publications such as �It�s Not All Sex and Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and Social Complexity in Human Evolution� in the American Anthropologist, �Re-visiting conflict resolution: Is there a role for emphasizing negotiation and cooperation instead of conflict and reconciliation?� in R. Sussman and A. Chapman Eds., The Origins and Nature of Sociality Aldine de Gruyter, Pub. He has published two edited volumes and is currently in the process of finishing three other texts. His current research projects include assessing behavior and disease transmission in human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar and looking at the roles of cooperation, social negotiation, and patterns of niche construction in human evolution.