Essentials of physical Antropology / Robert Jurmain, [and three others]

Includes bibliography and index.

Introduction -- The development of evolutionary theory -- The biological basis for life -- Heredity and evolution -- Macroevolution : processes of vertebrate and mammalian evolution -- An overview of the primates -- Primate behavior -- Hominid origins -- The earliest dispersal of the genus homo : Homo erectus and contemporaries -- Premodern humans -- The origin and dispersal of modern humans -- Human variation and adaptation -- The anthropoligical perspective on the human life course -- Lessons from the past, lessons for the future

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