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Author: Beth Alison Schultz Shook
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931303811
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Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology
Author: Dennis E. Slice
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0387276149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMorphometrics has undergone a revolutionary transformation in the past two decades as new methods have been developed to address shortcomings in the traditional multivirate analysis of linear distances, angles, and indices. While there is much active research in the field, the new approaches to shape analysis are already making significant and ever-increasing contributions to biological research, including physical anthropology. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology highlights the basic machinery of the most important methods, while introducing novel extensions to these methods and illustrating how they provide enhanced results compared to more traditional approaches. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology provides a comprehensive sampling of the applications of modern, sophisticated methods of shape analysis in anthropology, and serves as a starting point for the exploration of these practices by students and researchers who might otherwise lack the local expertise or training to get started. This text is an important resource for the general morphometric community that includes ecologists, evolutionary biologists, systematists, and medical researchers.
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
Author: Michael A. Little
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780739135112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistories 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.
Biological Anthropology
Author: Craig Britton Stanford
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780205150687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook presents a survey of physical anthropology, the branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in the study of human origins and in the analysis and identification of human remains for legal purposes. It draws upon human body measurements, human genetics, and the study of human bones and includes the study of human brain evolution, and of culture as neurological adaptation to environment. The authors use the progressive term "biological anthropology" to mean "an integrative combination of information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics of individuals and of populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior."
History of Physical Anthropology
Author: Frank Spencer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780815304906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe comparative study of humans as biological organisms, their evolution, and their physiological and anatomical functions and ecology of primates surveys the entire field and summarizes and organizes the basic knowledge, fundamental principles and development.
Homo Imperii
Author: Marina Mogilner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-04-01
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 1496210816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is widely assumed that the "nonclassical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "nonclassical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of racial science in prerevolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union. Marina Mogilner places this story in the context of imperial self-modernization, political and cultural debates of the epoch, different reformist and revolutionary trends, and the growing challenge of modern nationalism. By focusing on the competing centers of race science in different cities and regions of the empire, Homo Imperii introduces to English-language scholars the institutional nexus of racial science in Russia that exhibits the influence of imperial strategic relativism. Reminiscent of the work of anthropologists of empire such as Ann Stoler and Benedict Anderson, Homo Imperii reveals the complex imperial dynamics of Russian physical anthropology and contributes an important comparative perspective from which to understand the emergence of racial science in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and America.
Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology
Author: Dennis E. Slice
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-04-04
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0306486970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMorphometrics has undergone a revolutionary transformation in the past two decades as new methods have been developed to address shortcomings in the traditional multivirate analysis of linear distances, angles, and indices. While there is much active research in the field, the new approaches to shape analysis are already making significant and ever-increasing contributions to biological research, including physical anthropology. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology highlights the basic machinery of the most important methods, while introducing novel extensions to these methods and illustrating how they provide enhanced results compared to more traditional approaches. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology provides a comprehensive sampling of the applications of modern, sophisticated methods of shape analysis in anthropology, and serves as a starting point for the exploration of these practices by students and researchers who might otherwise lack the local expertise or training to get started. This text is an important resource for the general morphometric community that includes ecologists, evolutionary biologists, systematists, and medical researchers.
Essentials of Biological Anthropology
Author: Pavel Bláha
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788024613383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with interesting contemporary anthropological topics. As the authors are respected experts from Spain, Czech Republic and Belgium, the publication offers a good overview of modern anthropology. In the broad table of contents, we can find topics ranging from man's growth and development to genetics, from human evolution to population genetics or applied anthropology. The chapters are divided into 5 sections: 1. How to define anthropology, 2. Evolution, 3. From growth to aging, 4. Anthropology and society and 5. Applied anthropology. The publications is complemented with numerous charts, graphs and illustrations.
Human Variability and Plasticity
Author: C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-07-13
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0521453992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlasticity refers to the ability of many organisms to change their biology or behaviour to respond to changes in the environment, particularly when these are stressful. Humans are, perhaps, the most plastic of all species, and hence the most variable. This book reflects on the history of research in this area, state-of-the-art research methods and discoveries and needs for future research in human plasticity and variability. Topics discussed include child growth, starvation, disease of both young and old and the effects of migration, modernisation and other life-style changes. The book will be especially useful to biological anthropologists, human biologists and medical scientists interested in knowing more about how and why humans vary.
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
Author: Alan H. Goodman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998-10-28
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780472066063
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