Philip L. Stein,
Los Angeles Pierce College Bruce M. Rowe,
Los Angeles Pierce College
ISBN: 0072485949 Copyright year: 2002
What's New
Extensively updated the paleoanthropology area of the book extensively (Chapters 13, 14, and 15) on the basis of new finds and new interpretations of hominid evolution based on those finds.
Major revisions to the chapters on genetics on the basis of information from the human genome project and new advances in genetic engineering.
A new design and look for the book to include a glossary in the margins of each chapter, new illustrations, and redrawn line drawings. Three critical thinking questions are in each chapter.
Chapter 18, The Modern World includes sections on how urbanization and industrialization have effected people biologically. Such topics as the affect of pollution, warfare, and resource depletion are covered. There is also a section on the role of disease in human evolution (evolutionary epidemiology) as well as information for the student who might want to major or minor in anthropology.
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