Essentials of Physical Anthropology - Softcover

Jurmain, Robert; Kilgore, Lynn; Nelson, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0314045937 ISBN 13: 9780314045935

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

This text is the essentials version of Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 6E (West 1994). It provides a briefer, more basic introduction to human evolution and other topics. The latest research and material on evolution, disease, the scientific approach, and critical thinking has been added to this edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Jurmain received an A.B. in Anthropology from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Harvard. He taught at San Jose State University from 1975 to 2004 and is now Professor Emeritus. During his teaching career, he taught courses in all major branches of physical anthropology, including osteology and human evolution, with the greatest concentration in general education teaching for introductory students. His research interests are skeletal biology of humans and non-human primates, paleopathology, and paleoanthropology. In addition to his three textbooks, which together have appeared in 30 editions, he is the author of STORIES FROM THE SKELETON: BEHAVIORAL RECONSTRUCTION IN HUMAN OSTEOLOGY (1999, Gordon Breach Publishers), as well as numerous articles in research journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0314045937
• ISBN 13: 9780314045935
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 365