Biological Anthropology: Concepts and Connections

Agustín Fuentes completed a B.A. in Zoology and Anthropology, and an M.A.& Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include the evolution of social complexity in human and primate societies, conflict negotiation across primates, including humans, and reproductive behavior and ecology. He is also interested in issues of human-nonhuman primate interactions, disease and pathogen transfer. Fuentes’ recent work includes publications such as “It’s Not All Sex and Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and Social Complexity in Human Evolution” in the American Anthropologist, “Re-visiting conflict resolution: Is there a role for emphasizing negotiation and cooperation instead of conflict and reconciliation?” in R. Sussman and A. Chapman Eds., The Origins and Nature of Sociality Aldine de Gruyter, Pub. He has published two edited volumes and is currently in the process of finishing three other texts. His current research projects include assessing behavior and disease transmission in human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar and examining the roles of cooperation, social negotiation, and patterns of niche construction in human evolution.

• Biological Anthropology: Concepts and Connections, 3eCHAPTER 1: Introduction to Evolutionary Fact and Theory  CHAPTER 2: Basics of Human Biology CHAPTER 3: Introduction to Genetics and Genomics CHAPTER 4: Modern Evolutionary Theory CHAPTER 5: Primate Behavioral Ecology CHAPTER 6: Early Primate Evolution CHAPTER 7: Early Hominin EvolutionCHAPTER 8: Plio-Pleistocene Hominins and the Genus Homo CHAPTER 9: The Rise of Modern Humans CHAPTER 10: Human Biological Diversity in Context CHAPTER 11: The Present and Future of Human Evolution