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Exploring Biological Anthropology, (with John Allen and Susan Antón); 4th edition 2015. Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind, (with John Allen and Susan Antón); 4th edition 2015; Upright : The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human, 2003; Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature, 2001
Since 1993, the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association has awarded the W.W. Howells Book Award in Biological Anthropology. [20] Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859 [13] Thomas Henry Huxley, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, 1863; Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, 1869
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a natural science discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an evolutionary perspective. [1] This subfield of anthropology systematically studies human beings ...
Previously, the AAPA had published an official position on biological aspects of race, based on evidence from anthropological (as well as biological, genetic, and social scientific) research in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 101, pp 569–570, 1996. That statement emphasized that all humans belong to a single species and ...
David Murray Schneider (November 11, 1918, Brooklyn, New York – October 30, 1995, Santa Cruz, California) was an American cultural anthropologist, best known for his studies of kinship and as a major proponent of the symbolic anthropology approach to cultural anthropology.
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership.. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biological anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, visual anthropology and medical anthropology, as well as sub ...
Paul Thornell Baker (February 28, 1927 – November 29, 2007) was Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University, and was “one of the most influential biological anthropologists of his generation, contributing substantially to the transformation of the field from a largely descriptive to a hypothesis-driven science in the latter half of the 20th century.
[1] [2] He completed a doctoral degree in 1957 and joined the University of Michigan’s anthropology faculty in 1959 where he became Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Career