Contemporary Readings in Physical Anthropology

by Almquist, Alan J.

• ISBN13: 9780130962690
• ISBN10: 0130962694
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

A supplement for courses in Anthropology. This special topics reader includes articles from the New York Times, journals, and popular sources. It presents an intriguing introduction to currently debated issues in physical anthropology. The readings have been carefully selected and organized to challenge students with the basic inquiries about these controversial topics.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Theoretical Issues	1	(18)
``Oppressed by Evolution''	4	(8)
``Paleoanthropology Today''	12	(5)
``The Piltdown Perp''	17	(2)
Origins of the Human Lineage	19	(38)
``Weather Man''	22	(3)
``We Are All Panamanians''	25	(3)
``Sunset on the Savanna''	28	(9)
``An Upstanding Ape''	37	(2)
``Pre-Humans Stood Up and Walked 4 Million Years Ago, Researchers Say''	39	(2)
``New Clues to the History of Male and Female''	41	(3)
``Hominid Hardware''	44	(2)
``Death from the Pleistocene Sky''	46	(1)
``Ludwig in the Sky with Diamonds''	47	(1)
``Mary Leakey, 83, Dies; Traced Human Dawn''	48	(5)
``The Grande Dame of Archeology''	53	(2)
``New Analysis of Fossils May Muddy Accepted Path of Human Evolution''	55	(2)
Early Members of the Genus Homo	57	(18)
``2.3-Million-Year-Old Jaw Extends Human Family''	59	(4)
``Three Human Species Coexisted Eons Ago, New Data Suggest''	63	(3)
``Geological Analysis Damps Ancient Chinese Fires''	66	(3)
``Ancient Island Tools Suggest Homo Erectus Was a Seafarer''	69	(3)
``Fossils Called Limb in Human Family Tree''	72	(3)
Cultural Origins, Language, and Cognitive Abilities	75	(48)
``Bonobo Society: Amicable, Amorous, and Run by Females''	79	(3)
``In Society of Female Chimps, Subtle Signs of Vital Status''	82	(4)
``Road Maps of Apes''	86	(2)
``You Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours''	88	(4)
``Evolution and Morality''	92	(1)
``Are Apes Naughty by Nature?''	93	(4)
``Going Ape''	97	(3)
``How Did Man Get so Bad? Looking to the Apes''	100	(3)
``A Conversation with Emily Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: She Talks to Apes, and According to Her, They Talk Back''	103	(4)
``Ancestral Humans Could Speak, Anthropologists' Finding Suggests''	107	(3)
``Look Who's Talking; Don't Bother Listening''	110	(3)
``Brain of Chimpanzee Sheds Light on Mystery of Language''	113	(3)
``Madam, I'm Adam''	116	(3)
``Origin of Speech''	119	(2)
``The Materials Basis of the Human Voice''	121	(2)
Origins of Modern Homo Sapiens	123	(48)
``Not about Eve''	127	(3)
``Neanderthals Need Not Apply''	130	(4)
``Anthropologist Lonks a Shift in a Skull Bone to Face of Modern Man''	134	(3)
``Strong Bones, and Thus Dim-Witted?''	137	(2)
``Neanderthal DNA Sheds New Light on Human Origins''	139	(4)
``Not Our Mom''	143	(3)
``Neanderthals on the Run''	146	(2)
Don't Bring Politics into Neanderthal Debate; Lack of DNA Evidence``	148	(2)
''Out of Africa and Back``	150	(2)
To People the World, Start with 500''	152	(5)
``Footprints from the Human Dawn''	157	(2)
``Playing of Flute May Have Graced Neanderthal Fire''	159	(3)
``New Women of the Ice Age''	162	(7)
``Art in Australia, 60,000 Years Ago''	169	(2)
The Future: Prognostications and Predicaments	171	(3)
``Think Tank: Lofty Ideas That May Be Losing Altitude''	174	(3)
``You Can't Bear Mother Nature''	177	(3)
``The Bell Curve, Revisited by Scholars''	180	(2)
``First Gene to Be Linked with High Intelligence Is Reported Found''	182	(3)
``In the Hunt for Useful Genes, a Lot Depends on `Snips'''	185	(5)
``Science and the Native American Cosmos''	190	(1)
``Scientists Brace for Changes in Path of Human Evolution''	191	(4)
``Human in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction''	195