Human Biological Diversity is an introductory textbook designed to cover the key contemporary topics in the study of human variation and human biology within the field of physical anthropology.
Easily accessible for students with no background in anthropology or biology, this second edition includes 2 brand new chapters, one on human variation in the skeleton and dentition, and the other on tracing human population affinities. All other chapters have been fully updated to reflect advances in the field, and now include pedagogical features to aid the reader in their understanding.
Written for an introductory level but still containing valuable information that will be of interest to students on upper level courses, Browns textbook should be essential reading for all students taking courses on human variation, human biology, human evolution, race, the anthropology of race and general introductions to biological/physical anthropology.
1. Introduction
2. Background: Concepts of Evaluation and Genetics
3.
Molecular Genetics, Genomics, and Human Genetics
4. Macroevolution and
Taxonomy
5. Race and Human Variation
6. Human Biological Variation in the
Skeleton and Dentition: A Window on the Past
7. Genotypic Traits
8. Tracing
Human Population Affinities and Migrations
9. Demography: Populations,
Reproduction, and Mortality
10. Life Span: Growth and Development
11. Life
Span: Aging and Senescence
12. Human Adaptability to Physical Stressors
13.
Human Adaptability to Biological Stressors
14. Human Biology in the Modern
World
15. Human Biological Variation: A Look to the Future and Some Final
Thoughts on Ethics
Daniel E. Brown is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i Hilo, USA.
