Exploring Physical Anthropology: Lab Manual and Workbook, 4e
Suzanne E. Walker-Pacheco
This book is a comprehensive, full-color manual intended for an introductory physical or biological anthropology course. The book covers four key areas (introductory biology, skeletal anatomy, primatology, and human origins) and provides a hands-on approach to learning about the evolutionary process that resulted in Homo sapiens.
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Table of Contents for Exploring Physical Anthropology: Lab Manual and Workbook, 4e
- Preliminaries
- Chapter 1: The Scientific Method and Evolution
- Chapter 2: Cells and DNA
- Chapter 3: Chromosomes and Cell Division
- Chapter 4: Inheritance
- Chapter 5: Forces of Evolution
- Chapter 6: The Bones Within Us
- Chapter 7: Forensic Anthropology
- Chapter 8: Modern Human Biological Variation
- Chapter 9: Classification and Primates
- Chapter 10: The Living Primates
- Chapter 11: Dietary and Locomotor Adaptations
- Chapter 12: Investigating the Past: Fossil Primates
- Chapter 13: Early Members of the Human Lineage
Key features
- Background information provides context for the material covered in the chapter and helps students apply what they learn while an Extensive use of full color art and photography program provides students with excellent visual references as they work through the exercises.
- “Have You Ever Wondered” represent the types of questions that nonspecialists typically ask about each topic while Check Your Understanding questions are provided for students to complete prior to beginning the lab exercises to help ensure they understand the lab material
- The Hand on Activites illustrate the concepts presented in the readings while the exercises allow students to experience physical anthropology through use of the same methods used by researchers, with an emphasis on the scientific method.