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Exploring Physical Anthropology: A Lab Manual and Workbook, 4e

By Suzanne E. Walker-Pacheco • © 01/15/2022 • 528 Pages
Loose Leaf Format • Print ISBN 9781640432123 • eBook ISBN9781640436213

Table of contents

Chapter 1: The Scientific Method and Evolution
The Scientific Method
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What is Evolution?
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 1.1: Applying the Scientific Method
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LAB EXERCISE 1.2: Documenting Biological Variation
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LAB EXERCISE 1.3: Simulating Natural Selection
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Chapter 2: Cells and DNA
Cells
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DNA: The Genetic Material
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 2.1: Extracting DNA from a Banana
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LAB EXERCISE 2.2: Simulating of DNA Replication and Protein Synthesis
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LAB EXERCISE 2.3: Learning DNA Structure and Function
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Chapter 3: Chromosomes and Cell Division
Chromosomes
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Cell Division
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 3.1: Simulating Chromosomes and Cell Division
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LAB EXERCISE 3.2: Interpreting Karyotypes
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Chapter 4: Inheritance
Basic Principles of Inheritance
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Expression of Traits
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Predicting Outcomes of Autosomal and Sex-Linked Traits
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Pedigrees
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 4.1: Identifying Genotypes and Phenotypes, for Autosomal Traits
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LAB EXERCISE 4.2: Testing the PTC Tasting Hypothesis
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LAB EXERCISE 4.3: Blood Typing
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LAB EXERCISE 4.4: Constructing Pedigrees
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Chapter 5: Forces of Evolution
Evolutionary Forces
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Population Genetics and Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 5.1: Understanding Sickle Cell and Balanced Polymorphism
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LAB EXERCISE 5.2: Observing the Effect of Genetic Drift and Gene Flow
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LAB EXERCISE 5.3: Documenting Population Genetics
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LAB EXERCISE 5.4: Population Genetics Problems
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Chapter 6: The Bones Within Us
General Anatomy of Bone
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Anatomical Terminology
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The Skeleton, Articulations, and Muscle Actions
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Axial Skeleton, Part I: The Skull
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Axial Skeleton Part II: Vertebral Column and Thorax
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Appendicular Skeleton
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 6.1: Anatomical Terminology and the Skull
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LAB EXERCISE 6.2: Vertebral Column and Thorax
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LAB EXERCISE 6.3: Muscle Actions, Shoulder Girdle, Upper Limb, and Hand
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LAB EXERCISE 6.4: The Lower Limb
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LAB EXERCISE 6.5: Surface Anatomy
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Chapter 7: Forensic Anthropology
Steps and Tools in Forensic Analysis
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Assessing Sex
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Estimating Age at Death
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Assessing Ancestry
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Estimating Height
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Assessing Health and Nutrition
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Inferring Human Behavior from the Skeleton
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 7.1: Distinguishing Between Human and Nonhuman Remains
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LAB EXERCISE 7.2: Analyzing Bones Using Osteometry
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LAB EXERCISE 7.3: Assessing Sex
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LAB EXERCISE 7.4: Estimating Age
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LAB EXERCISE 7.5: Assessing Ancestry and Estimating Stature
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LAB EXERCISE 7.6: Practicing Anthroposcopy
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Chapter 8: Modern Human Biological Variation
Response to Environmental Change
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Social Consequences of Evolutionary Processes: Race and Racism
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Individual Variation
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 8.1: The Evaluation of Human Skin Color
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LAB EXERCISE 8.2: Explaining Modern Human Adaptations
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LAB EXERCISE 8.3: The Challenge of Documenting Intergroup Variation in Humans
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LAB EXERCISE 8.4: Interindividual Variation: Introduction to Fingerprinting
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LAB EXERCISE 8.5: Interindividual Variation: Cranial and Postcranial Measurements
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Chapter 9: Classification and Primates
Biological Classification
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Systematic Biology
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Order Primates
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 9.1: Understanding Biological Classification
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LAB EXERCISE 9.2: Practicing Systematic Biology
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LAB EXERCISE 9.3: Primate Features
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LAB EXERCISE 9.4: Classifying Primate Groups
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LAB EXERCISE 9.5: Applying Systematic Biology to the Primate Order
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Chapter 10: The Living Primates
Strepsirhines
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Haplorhines
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Primate Ecology and Behavior
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Studying Primates in the Wild and in Captivity
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 10.1: Distinguishing Primate Groups by Features, Behavior, Diet, and Distribution
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LAB EXERCISE 10.2: Primate Conservation
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LAB EXERCISE 10.3: Primate Observation Methods
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LAB EXERCISE 10.4: Observing Captive Primates
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LAB EXERCISE 10.5: Alternative to Lab Exercise 10.4
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Chapter 11: Dietary and Locomotor Adaptations
Dietary Adaptations
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Locomotor Adaptations
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 11.1: Determining Dietary Adaptations
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LAB EXERCISE 11.2: Determining Positional Adaptations
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Chapter 12: Investigating the Past: Fossil Primates
Investigating the Past
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Primate Origins
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 12.1: Investigating Fossils, the Paleoenvironment, and Taphonomy
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LAB EXERCISE 12.2: Utilizing Dating Techniques
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LAB EXERCISE 12.3: Comparing Primate Ancestors from the Paleocene to the Miocene
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Chapter 13: Early Members of the Human Lineage
Bipedalism: Hallmark of Humanity
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Early Members of the Human Lineage
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 13.1: Bipedalism
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LAB EXERCISE 13.2: Comparative Base: Apes and Humans
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LAB EXERCISE 13.3: Features of the Australopiths
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LAB EXERCISE 13.4: Measuring Cranial Capacity
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LAB EXERCISE 13.5: Tooth and Jaw Function
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LAB EXERCISE 13.6: Identifying and Assessing Early Hominin Remains
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Chapter 14: The Genus Homo
Earlier Homo
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Later Homo
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Check Your Understanding
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LAB EXERCISE 14.1: Stone Tools and Early Homo
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LAB EXERCISE 14.2: Later Homo
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LAB EXERCISE 14.2: Later Homo
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Appendix A: Cutouts of Beetles, Lab Exercise 1.3
2 Pages
Appendix B: Cutouts of DNA and RNA Bases, Amino Acids, Ribosome and tRNA Molecules, Lab Exercise 2.2
6 Pages
Appendix C: Cutouts of Chromosomes, Lab Exercise 3.2
2 Pages
Appendix D: Latin and Greek Roots for Selected Anatomical Terms
2 Pages
Appendix E: Fossil Primates: Paleocene through Miocene (New World primates not included)
2 Pages
Appendix F: Fossil Members of the Human Line (Hominids/Hominins)
2 Pages
Appendix G: Comparison of Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis Features
2 Pages
Glossary
10 Pages
Index
8 Pages

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