Themes of the Times for Biological Anthropology (Valuepack item only)
Lisa Anselmi

ISBN-10: 0205530230
ISBN-13: 9780205530236

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper
Published: 12/05/2006


This collection of 43 articles from the New York Times helps to bring the real world into your classroom. These articles have been chosen to allow for lively discussion of issues and controversies in the field of Social work and social welfare

Chapter 1:  Introduction to Anthropology and Biological Anthropology                           

In Explaining Life’s Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash                                        

Ghosts on the Radar Screen; Scientists Seek 19th-Century Black                                         

            Village Under the Park          

 

Chapter 2:  Principles of Macroevolution

From Bacteria to Us: What Went Right When Humans Started to Evolve?                         

Mice Ignore Mendel’s Laws in Passing on Their Traits                                                        

New Light on Origins of Ashkenazi in Europe                                                                      

                              

Chapter 3:  Genetics

What a Story Lice Can Tell                                                                                                    

Study, in a First, Explains Evolution’s Molecular Advance                                                  

Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story                                                                        

Scientists Find DNA Region That Affects Europeans’ Fertility                                            

 

Chapter 4: Dating and Dating Techniques

Playing of Flute May Have Graced Neanderthal Fire                                                          

A Discovery Puts Humans in Siberia Ages Ago                                                                     

Was the Island Pre-Fab from the Start?                                                                               

Improved Science Puts Modern Humans in Europe Earlier                                                  

 

Chapter 5: Macroevolution: First Life to Primates

Scientists Again Debating How Snakes Came to Slither                                                       

Fossil Called Missing Link from Sea to Land Animals                                                          

Duck Look-Alike Reveals Bird’s Evolution                                                                           

 

Chapter 6: Primates in Evolution

Wee Animal Called Earliest Link to Lower Primates and Humans                                      

Two Splits Between Human and Chimp Lines Suggested                                                      

Nigerian Monkeys Drop Hints on Language Origin                                                              

Chimps Display a Hallmark of Human Behavior: Cooperation                                            

 

Chapter 7: The Last Common Ancestor and Wannabe Hominids

Another Branch of Early Human Ancestors Is Reported by Scientists                                  

Running Extra Mile Sets the Human Apart                                                                           

New Fossils Add Link to the Chain Of the Evolution of Humans                                         

 

Chapter 8: Early Hominids in Africa: The Australopithecines

New Clue on Which Came First, Tools or Better Diets                                                         

Less Jaw, Big Brain: Evolution Milestone Laid to Gene Flaw                                              

A Historic Park for the Ages                                                                                                 

 

Chapter 9: Early Homo: Habilis, Erectus, Early Archaic Sapiens

Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways                                                                             

Of Tubers, Fire and Human Evolution                                                                                  

Experts Place Ancient Toolmakers on a Fast Track to Northern China                              

A Paleopuzzle: Chomping with No Chompers                                                                      

 

Chapter 10: The Neandertal Enigma

For Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, Was it De-Lovely?                                                     

The Basics; A Good Neanderthal Was Hard to Find                                                             

Skull Details Suggest Neanderthals Were Not Humans                                                        

A Conversation with: Ana Pinto; Sage Advice in Archaeology: Think like a Neanderthal

 

Chapter 11: Anatomically Modern Humans                                               

Sapiens Gets a Lot Older in a New Analysis of Fossils                                                         

Figurines Found in German Cave Are Among Earliest Artwork                                         

DNA Study Yields Clues on First Migration of Early Humans                                              

Commentary; From Squeak to Syntax: Language’s Incremental Evolution                        

 

Chapter 12: Modern Primates

What’s that Odor? Better Ask a Monkey                                                                               

A Conversation with–Carel van Schaik; Revealing Behavior in                                         

            “Orangutan Heaven and Human Hell’”

In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome’s Evolution                                                  

 

Chapter 13: Modern Humans

An 8-Year Fight Ends Over a 9,200-Year-Old Man                                                               

The Twists and Turns of History, and of DNA                                                                      

Debate on Little Human Fossil Enters Major Scientific Forum                                            

 

Chapter 14: Applied and Forensic Anthropology

Coming Soon to Mount Vernon, 3 Georges                                                                          

Chimp Virus Is Linked to H.I.V.                                                                                            

A Conversation with: Fredy Peccerelli; ‘The Bones Tell the Story’: Revealing                    

            History’s DarkerDays

 

Chapter 15: Conclusions: Who are We?

Gray Matter and the Sexes: Still a Scientific Gray Area                                                       

Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint                                                                             

A Conversation with: Robert Boyd; How Culture Pushed Us to the Top of the Food Chain

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