Biological anthropology; readings from Scientific American
By: with introductions by Solomon H. Katz.
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Published: 1975
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Physical anthropology; Anthropology, Physical
Other titles: Scientific American.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [471]-483.
Table of contents: title: The evolutionary roots and potentials of the human species. Introduction -- The earliest apes / Simons -- The antiquity of human walking / Napier -- Tools and human evolution / Washburn -- Homo erectus / Howells -- The casts of fossil hominid brains / Holloway -- The social life of baboons (Letter to the editor) / Washburn and Devore -- The omnivorous chimpanzee (Commentary by Teleki) / Teleki -- Teaching language to an ape / Premack and Premack -- Biological foundations of language by Lenneberg / Hockett -- Language and the brain / Geschwind -- Evolutionary theory : its development and application to man. Introduction -- The origin of Darwinism / Darlington -- Charles Lyell / Eiseley -- The genetic basis of evolution / Dobzhansky -- The genetic code : III / Crick -- The mapping of human chromosomes (Lecture by McKusick) / McKusick -- Ionizing radiation and evolution / Crow -- Genetic load / Wills -- “Genetic drift” in an Italian population / Cavalli-Sforza -- Race and individuality. Introduction -- The distribution of man / Howells -- The origin of races by Coon / Dobzhansky -- Intelligence and race (Letters to the editor) (Commentary by Bodmer) / Bodmer and Cavalli-Sforza -- The genetics of human populations / Cavalli-Sforza -- Growing up / Tanner -- Deprivation dwarfism / Gardner -- Getting old / Leaf -- Adaptation and adaptability. Introduction -- Lactose and lactase / Kretchmer -- The black death / Langer -- Adaptations to cold / Irving -- The physiology of high altitude / Hock -- The skin / Montagna -- The multiple sclerosis problem / Dean -- The flow of energy in a hunting society / Kemp -- The flow of energy in an agricultural society (Commentary by Rappaport) / Rappaport -- The challenge of the present. Introduction -- The present evolution of man / Dobzhansky -- Mankind evolving : the evolution of the human species by Dobzhansky / De Beer --  The natural history of aggression, edited by Carthy and Ebling / Rappaport -- Biology and the future of man, edited by Handler / Mirsky -- Prenatal diagnosis of genetic disease (Science and the Citizen) / Friedmann -- Human food production as a process in the biosphere / Brown -- Toxic substances and ecological cycles (Science and the Citizen : Letters to the Editor) / Woodwell -- The history of the human population / Coale -- Epilogue.