Exploring Physical Anthropology: A Lab Manual and Workbook, 3e

By Suzanne E. Walker-Pacheco • © 01/01/2017 • 464 Pages
Loose-leaf Format • Print ISBN 9781617314032 • eBook ISBN9781617314278

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Physical Anthropology: Science and Evolution
Ch 1 Objectives and Background Info
6 Pages
Check Your Understanding 1.1
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 1.1: The Scientific Method
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 1.2: Documenting Biological Variation
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 1.3: Simulating Natural Selection
4 Pages
Chapter 2 Cells and DNA
Ch 2 Objectives and Background Info, p. 17-22
6 Pages
Check Your Understanding 2.1
4 Pages
Ch 2 Background Info, p 27-32
6 Pages
Check Your Understanding 2.2
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 2.1: Extracting DNA from a Banana
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 2.2: Simulation of DNA Replication and Protein Synthesis
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 2.3: DNA Structure and Function
4 Pages
Chapter 3 Chromosomes and Cell Division
Ch 3 Objectives and Background Info
10 Pages
Check Your Understanding 3.1
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 3.1: Chromosomes and Cell Division
6 Pages
Lab Exercise 3.2: Karyotypes
4 Pages
Chapter 4 Inheritance
Ch 4: Objectives and Background Info, p 65-74
10 Pages
Check Your Understanding 4.1
2 Pages
Ch 4 Background Info, p 77-80
4 Pages
Check Your Understanding 4.2
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 4.1: Identifying Genotypes and Phenotypes, Transmission of Autosomal Traits
6 Pages
Lab Exercise 4.2: Testing the PTC Tasting Hypothesis
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 4.3: Blood Typing
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 4.4: Pedigree Construction for Red-Green Color-Blindness Trait
4 Pages
Chapter 5 Forces of Evolution
Ch 5 Objectives and Background Info, p 99-104
6 Pages
Check Your Understanding 5.1
2 Pages
Ch 5 Background Info, p 107-108
2 Pages
Check Your Understanding 5.2
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 5.1: Sickle Cell and Balanced Polymorphism
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 5.2: Documenting Evolution: Population Genetics
8 Pages
Lab Exercise 5.3: Population Genetics Problems
4 Pages
Chapter 6 The Bones Within Us
Ch 6 Objectives and Background Info, p 127-138
12 Pages
Check Your Understanding 6.1
2 Pages
Ch 6 Background Info, p 141-154
14 Pages
Check Your Understanding 6.2
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 6.1: Anatomical Terminology and the Skull
6 Pages
Lab Exercise 6.2: Vertebral Column and Thorax
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 6.3: Muscle Actions, Shoulder Girdle, Upper Limb, and Hand
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 6.4: The Lower Limb
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 6.5: Surface Anatomy
2 Pages
Chapter 7 Forensic Anthropology
Ch 7 Objectives and Background Info, p 175-182
8 Pages
Check Your Understanding 7.1
2 Pages
Ch 7 Background Info, p 185-194
10 Pages
Check Your Understanding 7.2
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 7.1: Osteometry
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 7.2: Sex Determination
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 7.3: Estimating Age
6 Pages
Lab Exercise 7.4: Ancestry Determination and Stature Estimation
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 7.5: Anthroposcopy
4 Pages
Chapter 8 Modern Human Biological Variation
Ch 8 Objectives and Background Info
6 Pages
Check Your Understanding 8.1
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 8.1: Discrete Trait: Introduction to Fingerprinting
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 8.2: Continuous Traits: Cranial and Postcranial Measurements
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 8.3: The Challenge of Documenting Intergroup Variation in Humans
4 Pages
Chapter 9 Biological Classification and the Order Primates
Ch 9 Objectives and Background Info, p 239-246
8 Pages
Check Your Understanding 9.1
2 Pages
Ch 9 Background Info, p 249-250
2 Pages
Check Your Understanding 9.2
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 9.1: Biological Classification, Primate Features
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 9.2: Primate Classification
6 Pages
Lab Exercise 9.3: Systematic Biology
2 Pages
Chapter 10 The Living Primates
Ch 10 Objectives and Background Info
6 Pages
Check Your Understanding 10.1
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 10.1: Distinguishing Primate Groups by Features and Behavior; Primate Diet and Distribution
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 10.2: Observing Captive Primates
10 Pages
Lab Exercise 10.3: Alternative to Lab Exercise 10.2
2 Pages
Chapter 11 The Anatomy-Behavior Link: Dietary and Locomotor Adaptations
Ch 11 Objectives and Background Info
10 Pages
Check Your Understanding 11.1
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 11.1: Dietary Adaptations
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 11.2: Positional Adaptations
6 Pages
Chapter 12 Investigating the Past: Fossil Primates
Ch 12 Objectives and Background Info
12 Pages
Check Your Understanding 12.1
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 12.1: Investigating Past Life
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 12.2: Dating Techniques
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 12.3: Primates through the Miocene
8 Pages
Chapter 13 Who’s in Our Family?
Ch 13 Objectives and Background Info, p 343-350
8 Pages
Check Your Understanding 13.1
2 Pages
Ch 13 Background Info, p 353-360
8 Pages
Check Your Understanding 13.2
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 13.1: Bipedalism
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 13.2: Comparative Base: Apes and Humans
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 13.3: Features of the Australopiths
10 Pages
Lab Exercise 13.4: Measuring Cranial Capacity
2 Pages
Lab Exercise 13.5: Tooth and Jaw Function
2 Pages
Chapter 14 The Genus Homo
Ch 14 Objectives and Background Info, p 383-386
4 Pages
Check Your Understanding 14.1
2 Pages
Ch 14 Background Info, p 389-394
6 Pages
Check Your Understanding 14.2
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 14.1: Stone Tools and Early Homo
6 Pages
Lab Exercise 14.2: Later Homo
4 Pages
Lab Exercise 14.3: Body Proportions in Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans
2 Pages
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
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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