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Exploring Biological
Anthropology
The Essentials
Fourth Edition
Craig Stanford
University of Southern California
John S. Allen
University of Southern California
Susan C. Antón
New York University
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Exploring biological anthropology / Craig Stanford, University of Southern California, John S. Allen,
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Brief Contents
Part I
Foundations
1
What Is Biological Anthropology?
1
2
Origins of Evolutionary Thought
12
Part II
Mechanisms of Evolution
3
Genetics: Cells and Molecules
4
Genetics: From Genotype to Phenotype
5
The Forces of Evolution and the Formation of Species
6
Human Variation: Evolution, Adaptation, and Adaptability
Part III
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Primates
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The Primates
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Primate Behavior
Part IV
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The Fossil Record
Geology and Primate Origins
200
10
Early Hominins and Australopithecus
11
Rise of the Genus Homo
12
Archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertals 309
13
The Emergence, Dispersal, and Bioarchaeology of Homo sapiens
Part V
242
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342
Biology and Behavior of Modern Humans
14
Evolution of the Brain and Behavior 373
15
Biomedical and Forensic Anthropology
402
Appendix A Primate and Human Comparative Anatomy
Appendix B The Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium
Appendix C
Metric–Imperial Conversions
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Contents
Preface xvii
About the Authors
DNA Function II: Protein Synthesis 39
DNA Structure II: Chromosomes and Cell
Division 45
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Part I Foundations
1
What Is Biological Anthropology?
Anthropology and Its Subfields
1
INNOVATIONS: DNA Barcoding 56
3
The Scope of Biological Anthropology
Summary • Review Questions
3
The Subfields of Anthropology 4
Paleoanthropology 5
Skeletal Biology and Human Osteology
Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology 6
Forensic Anthropology 7
Primatology 8
Human Biology 9
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10
Summary • Review Questions
Origins of Evolutionary Thought
What Is Science?
12
14
The Early Thinkers 15
The Roots of Modern Science 15
Linnaeus and the Natural Scheme of Life
16
The Darwinian Revolution 19
The Galápagos 19
Refining the Theory of Evolution by Natural
Selection 22
Heritability and IQ Test Score Performance
26
Summary • Review Questions
Genetics: Cells and Molecules
INNOVATIONS: A New Genetic Era
Genes and Environments
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34
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Cloning Controversies
DNA Structure and Function 37
DNA Structure I: The Molecular Level
DNA Function I: Replication 39
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Summary • Review Questions
PART II Mechanisms of
Evolution
The Cell 33
Cell Anatomy
77
Phenylketonuria: Illustrating Mendelian and Post-Mendelian
Concepts 78
24
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: What Is Intelligent Design?
The Study of Genetics
68
Mutation 68
Point Mutation and Sickle Cell Disease 68
Mutations: Bad, Neutral, and Good 70
X-Linked Disorders 72
Mendelian Genetics in Humans 73
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Popular Mendelism and the
Shadow of Eugenics 76
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Darwin versus Wallace?
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Mendelian Genetics 63
Mendel’s Postulates 65
Linkage and Crossing Over
Genetics beyond Mendel 73
Polygenic Traits, the Phenotype, and
the Environment 75
The Road to the Darwinian Revolution 16
The Uniformitarians: Hutton and Lyell 18
Science and Creationism
Genetics: From Genotype
to Phenotype 59
From Genotype to Phenotype 61
The ABO Blood Type System 62
Obesity: A Complex Interaction 62
The Roots of Modern Biological Anthropology
2
Molecular Tools for Bioanthropological Research 51
Indirect and Direct Research Methods 51
PCR, Mitochondrial DNA, and Ancient DNA 52
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The Forces of Evolution and the
Formation of Species 83
How Evolution Works 84
Where Does Variation Come From? 84
How Natural Selection Works 85
Other Ways By Which Evolution Happens
87
Classification and Evolution 91
Taxonomy and Speciation 91
What Is a Species? 92
Species Concepts 94
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INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: What’s in a Name? Species
Concepts, Genetics, and Conservation 95
Life History Traits 148
Behavioral Traits 149
A Guide to the Nonhuman Primates
The Strepsirhines 154
The Haplorhines 157
Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms 96
How Species Are Formed 96
The Tempo of Speciation 98
Adaptation 98
Is Everything Adaptive? 99
Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: The Rarest of the Rare
100
Primate Ecology
Summary • Review Questions
105
Human Variation at the Individual and Group Levels
What Is a Population? 107
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Historical Perspectives on Human Variation 108
Recording Human Variation in Past Civilizations 108
The Monogenism–Polygenism Debate 110
Race and Racism in the Twentieth Century 111
Changing Attitudes toward Race in Anthropology 112
Deconstructing Racial Features 112
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INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: The Infanticide Wars
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INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Are Chimpanzees from Mars and
Bonobos from Venus? 196
Summary • Review Questions
PART IV
Body Size and Shape 132
Living at High Altitude 133
Skin Color 135
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The Fossil Record
Geology and Primate Origins 200
How to Become a Fossil
Summary • Review Questions
202
The Importance of Context 203
Stratigraphy 203
The Geologic Time Scale 205
Primates
141
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Types of Nonhuman Primate Societies
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Technology and Extreme
Environments 131
What Exactly Is a Primate?
Anatomical Traits 144
Primate Behavior
INNOVATIONS: Culture in Nonhuman Primates
Adaptation and Adaptability 129
Levels of Adaptability 129
Heat and Cold 130
The Primate Radiation 143
The Extraordinary Diversity of Nonhuman Primates
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Why Are Nonhuman Primates Social?
The Paradox of Sociality 187
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Polymorphisms and Natural Selection in Human
Populations 123
The Evolution of Lactose Tolerance 123
Balanced Polymorphisms: Sickle Cell and
Other Conditions 125
The Primates
Summary • Review Questions
The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior 181
Social Behavior and Reproductive Asymmetry
Male Reproductive Strategies 184
Female Reproductive Strategies 185
INNOVATIONS: Bermuda: Population Genetics of One
of the Last Places Settled by People 120
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Diet 171
You Are What You Eat: Dietary and Digestive
Strategies 172
Diet and Feeding Competition 173
Territories and Ranges 173
Predation 174
Primate Communities 175
Studying Primates 180
Population Genetics 114
Polymorphisms: ABO and Other Blood Type
Systems 114
Gene Flow and Protein Polymorphisms 118
PART III
169
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: The Impending Extinction of the
Great Apes? 170
Human Variation: Evolution,
Adaptation, and Adaptability
Polymorphisms and Phylogenetic Studies
158
The New World Monkeys 159
The Old World Monkeys 161
The Hominoids 163
Levels of Selection 101
Inclusive Fitness 102
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How Old Is It? 208
Relative Dating Techniques 209
Calibrated Relative Dating Techniques 211
Chronometric Dating Techniques 212
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Dating Controversies
INNOVATIONS: Time in a Bottle
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Earth in the Cenozoic 219
Continents and Land Masses 219
The Environment in the Cenozoic 220
Climate Change and Early Primate Evolution 222
Changes in the Paleocene Related to the Origin
of Primates 223
Why Primates? 224
True Primates of the Eocene 224
Selective Pressures Favoring the Strepsirhine–Haplorhine
Split 226
Climate Change and the Origin of Monkeys and Apes 227
The First Monkeys 227
New World Monkeys 229
Old World Monkeys 230
What Favored the Origin of Anthropoids? 230
The Earliest Apes 231
Selection Pressures and the Divergence of Monkeys
and Apes 233
The Monkey’s Tale: What Happened to Primate Diversity
in the Miocene? 236
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Climate and the Evolution of Homo in the Pliocene
and Pleistocene 278
Defining the Genus Homo
279
Earliest Genus Homo 279
Homo habilis (1.9–1.4 mya) 280
Homo rudolfensis (2.1–1.78 mya) 281
Early Tool Use, Hunting, and Scavenging 281
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Homo naledi and The Cradle
of Humankind 282
Hunting and Scavenging 285
Who Was Homo erectus? 286
Anatomical Features 286
Homo erectus versus Homo ergaster
290
Homo erectus Around the World 291
African Origins 291
The First African Diaspora: Republic of Georgia
Dispersal Into East Asia 295
INNOVATIONS: What’s Size Got to Do with It?
Molecular Evolution in Primates 236
A Primate Molecular Phylogeny 237
The Status of Homo erectus in Europe
The Lifeways of Homo erectus 301
Homo erectus and the Early Stone Age
Summary • Review Questions
10
Rise of the Genus Homo
294
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INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: The Little People of Flores
Early Hominins and
Australopithecus 242
Becoming a Biped 243
Anatomical Changes 244
Constructing the Bipedal Body Plan
302
A Higher-Quality Diet: Homo erectus Subsistence 304
Homo Erectus Life History 304
Homo erectus Leaves Africa 305
Summary • Review Questions
247
Will You Know a Hominin When You See One?
248
The First Hominins? 249
Sahelanthropus tchadensis (7.0–6.0 mya) 249
INSIGHTS & ADVANCES: Locomotion of the Last Common
Ancestor 250
Orrorin tugenensis (6.0 mya) 252
Ardipithecus ramidus (4.4 mya) and Ardipithecus kadabba
(5.8–5.2 mya) 253
Selective Pressures and the Origin of Hominins 254
Australopithecus and Kin 257
Australopithecus anamensis (4.2–3.9 mya) 257
Australopithecus afarensis (3.9–2.9 mya) 260
INNOVATIONS: Dikika and Development 262
Other East and West African Hominins
(3.5–2.5 mya) 264
Australopithecus africanus (3.5–
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