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Park:Biological Anthropology
Biological Anthropology, 3/e
Michael Alan Park

The Study of Living Peoples

Learning Objectives

How do we recognize genetic changes in populations and identify and study their causes?

What basic data do we gather in order to describe human populations?

What sort of trends can we see in populations within our species?

In what ways have we humans adapted to the varying environments in which we live?

How have diseases influenced human populations?

What are the results of our species' evolution on the life histories--the "personal evolution"--of the human indiviudal?