James Mourilyan Tanner

Perspectives on Hominin Evolution

Edited by Sally C. Reynolds, Andrew Gallagher

A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia

Christy G. Turner II, Nicolai D. Ovodov, Olga V. Pavlova

Theory, Methods and Applications

Edited by Michael H. Crawford

With the recent developments in DNA and computer technologies, the field of anthropological genetics has been redefined. This volume deals ...

Genetics, Evolution, Variation

Edited by G. Richard Scott, Joel D. Irish

The Individual and the Population

Edited by Stanley J. Ulijaszek, C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

Anthropometry is defined as the measurement of human morphology, and is used in a variety of contexts, including paediatrics and ...

Edited by C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Gabriel W. Lasker

The unique contribution made by biological anthropology to human welfare lies in the fundamental understanding it can provide of the ...

Edited by Marc Oxenham, Nancy Tayles

Written for bioarchaeologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists, this is the first book to focus on the physical remains of the pre-historic ...

Edited by C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Gabriel W. Lasker

Ashley H. Robins

Skin colour is perhaps the most decisive and abused physical characteristic of humankind. This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of ...

Evidence from Historical Populations

Susan Scott, Christopher J. Duncan

The threat of unstoppable plague is an ever-present threat in these days of AIDS and Ebola. In the past, the ...

Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology

Edited by Tim Ingold, Gisli Palsson

Edited by P. S. W. Davies, T. J. Cole

Assessments of body composition are used in a wide variety of fields, including human biology, nutrition, sports science, obesity research, ...

Roy J. Shephard

This volume provides a thought-provoking perspective on the empirical and analytic study of body form and composition. The techniques used ...

Edited by K. J. Collins, Derek F. Roberts

An Evolutionary Perspective

Edited by Michael H. Crawford, Benjamin C. Campbell

Natural History and Culture at Mahale

Toshisada Nishida

Edited by P. C. Lee

Comparative studies are becoming increasingly important as a means for understanding the biology, behaviour and evolution of mammals, especially primates. ...

Alan H. Bittles

Edited by Caroline Wilkinson, Christopher Rynn

How Teeth Work

Peter W. Lucas

Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely crush, cut, shear or grind food, and ...

In Traditional and Developing Societies

Edited by Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison, J. C. Waterlow

Edited by John E. Fa, Donald G. Lindburg

Macaques are one of the most widely studied non-human primate groups. Within the last five million years, they have evolved ...

Edited by Liza M. Veiga, Adrian A. Barnett, Stephen F. Ferrari, Marilyn A. Norconk

Implications for Public Health

Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton

Edited by Gottfried Hohmann, Martha M. Robbins, Christophe Boesch

Here, the relationship between food, social behaviour and nutrition in our closest living relatives, the apes, is assessed. Exploring the ...

Edited by John Landers, Vernon Reynolds

A Practical Guide

Edited by Joanna M. Setchell, Deborah J. Curtis

Caroline Wilkinson

Edited by Derek F. Roberts, G. F. De Stefano

A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Edited by Andrea B. Taylor, Michele L. Goldsmith

The Fels Longitudinal Study 1929–1991

Alex F. Roche

Growth, Maturation and Body Composition documents one of the most remarkable and significant studies in the field of human biology. ...

Edited by Ryutaro Ohtsuka, Stanley J. Ulijaszek

The Asia-Pacific region encompasses South East and East Asia, Pacific Islands and the islands of Melanesia. Recent evidence is considered ...

Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia

Edited by Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews

What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Our earliest human ancestors may have come out of ...

A Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective

Edited by Catherine Panter-Brick, Carol M. Worthman

Edited by S. H. Irvine, J. W. Berry

The Study of Variation in Adult Tooth Size

Julius A. Kieser

Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations

Edited by D. Ann Herring, Alan C. Swedlund

For the anthropologists writing for this volume, the 'field' is not an exotic locale but the sometimes dusty back rooms ...

Edited by Simon S. Strickland, Prakash S. Shetty

Lorena Madrigal

A comprehensive review of the health, demography and population genetics of Carribbean populations fo African descent, beginning with the forced ...

Susan Scott, C. J. Duncan

Population cycles are fundamental to human demography and several mathematical techniques are available for analysing the wealth of information that ...

Stanley J. Ulijaszek

Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology considers various ways in which measurements of energy intake, expenditure and balance have been used ...

Edited by Michael P. Muehlenbein

Assessment and Interpretation

Alex F. Roche, Shumei S. Sun

Human Growth is a complete reference to the field for researchers and professionals. Including methods to measure size and maturity, ...

Studies from Bones and Teeth

Edited by Robert D. Hoppa, Charles M. FitzGerald

Until now, studies of dental and skeletal growth and development have too often been treated as independent disciplines within the ...

Rebecca Gowland, Tim Thompson

Edited by C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor, Anthony J. Boyce

This book examines the causes and consequences of different mating patterns in man with particular reference to biological, medical and ...

Robert B. Eckhardt

Human Paleobiology explores past and present human variation and adaptability under a range of changing environmental conditions. Using a historical ...

R. J. Shephard

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Helen Macbeth, Paul Collinson

Human Population Dynamics is an introductory text which demonstrates how changes in human population structure can be addressed from several ...

Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives

Douglas E. Crews

It is only comparatively recently in evolutionary terms that humans have developed late-life survival, but much of the research on ...

Edited by C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Barry Bogin, Foreword by G. A. Harrison

Plasticity refers to the ability of many animals to alter their biology in response to changes in their environment. Humans ...

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Edited by Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H. Layton, Peter Rowley-Conwy

Since publication of the seminal work on hunter gatherers, Man the Hunter in 1968, research into hunter-gatherer populations and societies ...

Present and Future Prospects

Edited by Gillian R. Bentley, C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

Medical, environmental and social changes have all profoundly affected human reproduction. This book provides an accessible, interdisciplinary perspective on the ...

Edited by Derek F. Roberts, N. Fujiki, K. Torizuka

Edited by George Ellison, Melissa Parker, Catherine Campbell

Leaning from HIV/AIDS brings together health-care professionals and academics in a variety of disciplines seeking to understand, and prevent the ...

Growth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective

Edited by C. Jeya K. Henry, Stanley J. Ulijaszek

The early environment in which we grow up has profound, long lasting, and often irreversible consequences for us throughout our ...

A Practical Guide for the Field

Edited by Gillian H. Ice, Gary D. James

The purpose of this book is to present state-of-the-art non-invasive methods of measuring the biological responses to psychosocial stress in ...

Edited by Roland C. Hauspie, Noël Cameron, Luciano Molinari

In order to gain an understanding of the dynamics of human individual and average growth patterns it is essential that ...

Alan G. Fix

Migration and colonization are major forces affecting the frequency, spatial pattern and spread of genes in human populations. Differing from ...

How Natural Selection Produces Biological Complexity

Lucio Vinicius

Edited by Eric J. Devor

This volume presents the findings of a selection of pioneering research studies in which new molecular techniques have been used ...

Ecology and Management of Long-Tailed Macaques and their Interface with Humans

Edited by Michael D. Gumert, Agustín Fuentes, Lisa Jones-Engel

Three Decades of Research at Karisoke

Edited by Martha M. Robbins, Pascale Sicotte, Kelly J. Stewart

Since the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda was established by Dian Fossey over thirty years ago, the mountain gorillas of ...

An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective

Clive Finlayson

During the Pleistocene, human populations spread across the world. The Neanderthals were a people native to Europe who became extinct ...

Edited by Paul F. Whitehead, Clifford J. Jolly

Old World monkeys are the most successful and diverse group of non-human primates living today. They can teach us much ...

Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples

Edited by Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel

There are many methodological and theoretical problems in reconstructing demographic structure from archaeological populations. Paleodemography is an innovative volume which ...

Edited by J. L. Thompson, G. E. Krovitz, A. J. Nelson

It is generally accepted that the earliest human ancestors grew more like apes than current-day humans. When, how and why, ...

Aspects of Human Biology of the Early Pacific

Philip Houghton

This unique work documents the biology of the first human settlers of the Pacific islands. Philip Houghton discusses the distinctive ...

Edited by Nicholas G. Norgan

Edited by G. A. Harrison

An Introduction to the Teeth of Non-human Primates

Daris R. Swindler

Primate teeth are of interest to a wide range of researchers from primatology, dental and physical anthropology, comparative anatomy and ...

The Dynamics and Study of Host-Parasite Relationships

Edited by Michael A. Huffman, Colin A. Chapman

Susan Cachel

Primate and Human Evolution provides a broad synthetic perspective on widely divergent fields within evolutionary anthropology. It integrates the evidence ...

The Conservation Implications of Human-nonhuman Primate Interconnections

Edited by Agustín Fuentes, Linda D. Wolfe

Despite being our closest evolutionary relatives, most species of non human primates now face an uncertain future through exploitation for ...

Topics in Human Reproductive Ecology

Edited by C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Lyliane Rosetta

Field and Survey Studies

Edited by Gabriel Ward Lasker, C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

This book is about the process of doing research, not about the results obtained. A number of researchers with experience ...

Edited by S. J. Ulijaszek, S. S. Strickland

Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates

Edited by Diane K. Brockman, Carel P. van Schaik

All primates have to cope with seasonal variation in food supply. Written for graduate students and researchers in biological anthropology ...

Economic Origins of Human Evolution

Haim Ofek

Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely a de novo artefact of modern civilisation? Spanning ...

Edited by Anne L. Grauer, Patricia Stuart-Macadam

A growing body of literature indicates that diseases can affect women and men differently. This book synthesizes modern medical research ...

New and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Peter M. Kappeler, Carel P. van Schaik

Sexual Selection in Primates is a book about primate sexual strategies. Successful reproduction is not always a co-operative affair, but ...

Form, Function, and Behavior

Edited by Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German, Nina G. Jablonski

Shaping Primate Evolution is a state-of-the-art book on how form is described in primate biology, and the consequences of form ...

K. P. Wessen

Both the development of populations over time, and species evolution on longer timescales, are influenced by the complex interactions of ...

Development and Applications

J. E. Lindsay Carter, Barbara Honeyman Heath

The Biology, Behavior and Ecology of the Genus Ateles

Edited by Christina J. Campbell

Lorena Madrigal

Gabriel Ward Lasker

Edited by Joel D. Irish, Greg C. Nelson

Bringing together a variety of today's most accomplished dental researchers, the focus of this book is the methodology required for ...

Dental Morphology and its Variation in Recent Human Populations

G. Richard Scott, Christy G. Turner

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This ...

Perspectives from Biological and Forensic Anthropology

Mary E. Lewis

This book is the first to be entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts. ...

Edited by Paul T. Baker

A. H. Bittles, K. J. Collins

Larry L. Mai, Marcus Young Owl, M. Patricia Kersting

The Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution (DHBE) is an invaluable research and study tool for students and researchers. Packed ...

Arthur C. Aufderheide, Conrado Rodriguez-Martin

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology is the major reference work for all those interested in the identification of disease ...

The Biology of the Genus Cebus

Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Linda M. Fedigan

Capuchin monkeys in the genus Cebus are one of the most widely distributed genera of primates in Central and South ...

Francisco M. Salzano, Maria C. Bortolini

The human genetic make-up of Latin America is a reflection of successive waves of colonization and immigration. Although much information ...

A Study of Cranial Variation

Marta Mirazón Lahr

There are two main theories as to how humans evolved. The first suggests that modern humans evolved from several regional ...

Donald M. Broom

Many philosophers and theologians write about morality and its origins without reference to biological processes such as evolution. In ...

Thrift and Control

Jonathan C. K. Wells

Race, Evolution and the Origin of Native Americans

Joseph F. Powell

The recent discoveries of 9000–12000 year old skeletal remains in the Americas have begun to change our understanding of who ...

S. G. Webb

The First Boat People shows how people travelled across the world during the Pleistocene. It looks at why and where ...

Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples

Roy J. Shephard, Andris Rode

Edited by F. A. Milan

Edited by William R. Leonard, Michael H. Crawford

Edited by T. Hägerstrand

60 Years of Primatological Research on the Japanese Macaques of Arashiyama

Edited by Jean-Baptiste Leca, Michael A. Huffman, Paul L. Vasey

Evidence from Anthropological Genetics

Michael H. Crawford

Who are the Native Americans? How and when did they colonize the New World? This book is a unique synthesis ...

Edited by James Mourilyan Tanner, Michael A. Preece

Reshaping our Relationships with Other Animals

Edited by Raymond Corbey, Annette Lanjouw

Edited by Walter Carl Hartwig

Arthur C. Aufderheide

Many cultures have attempted to stop the decay of human and other bodies after death, but spontaneously mummified bodies are ...

The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus

Edited by Nina G. Jablonski

This unique volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of all aspects of the biology of the Old World monkey ...

Cognition and Ecology

Edited by Crickette Sanz, Josep Call, Christophe Boesch

Exploring Human Evolutionary Studies

R. A. Foley

The last twenty years or so have seen a resurgence of interest in human evolution in many aspects. A distinction ...

Edited by Lawrence M. Schell, Malcolm Smith, Alan Bilsborough

Edited by L. M. Schell, S. J. Ulijaszek

Living in cities is the most important change of human living conditions in our evolutionary history. Within the next few ...

Edited by Lyliane Rosetta, C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

Many people believe that there is great similarity in the reproductive cycle shown by one woman to the next. This ...

An Evolutionary Perspective

Tessa M. Pollard

At the heart of the evolutionary perspective is the notion that human evolution occurred in circumstances very different from the ...

A Comparison between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures

Christophe Boesch