Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century

Author: Michael A. Little

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780739135112

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Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology--or, as it is now known, biological anthropology--from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors trace the development of people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that contributed to the advancement of this branch of anthropology that focuses today on human variation and human evolution. Designed for upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, and professional biological anthropologists, this book provides a brief and accessible history of the biobehavioral side of anthropology in America.

From Biped to Strider
From Biped to Strider

Author: D. Jeffrey Meldrum

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-06-27

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 144198965X

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The inspiration for this volume of contributed papers stemmed from conversations between the editors in front of Chuck Hilton's poster on the determinants of hominid walking speed, presented at thel998 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). Earlier at those meetings, Jeff Meldrum (with Roshna Wunderlich) had presented an alternate interpretation of the Laetoli footprints based on evidence of midfoot flexibility. As the discussion ensued we found convergence on a number of ideas about the nature of the evolution of modem human walking. From the continuation of that dialogue grew the proposal for a symposium which we called From Biped to Strider: the Emergence of Modem Human Walking. The symposium was held as a session of the 69th annual meeting of the AAPA, held in San Antonio, Texas in 2000. It seemed to us that the study of human bipedalism had become overshadowed by theoften polarized debates over whether australo pithecines were wholly terrestrial in habit, or retained a significant degree of arboreality.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology
American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Author: Aleš Hrdlička

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1930- include the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (sometimes issued as separately paged supplements); later issued separately as: Program of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1991- (alternates supplement numbering with: Yearbook of physical anthropology).