Companion to Biological Anthropology

CLARK SPENCER LARSEN is Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State University, USA. He is the founding editor of the book series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past and has served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Over the course of his career, he has authored and edited more than 35 books and monographs, including Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton, Second Edition (2015) and Our Origins: Discovering Biological Anthropology, Fifth Edition (2020), and was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

• Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xxForeword xxii1 The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology 1Clark Spencer LarsenPart I: History 132 Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology 15Michael A. Little and Jane E. BuikstraPart II: The Present and the Living 393 Evolution: What It Means and How We Know 41Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan4 Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present 55Alexis Uluutku and Bernard Wood5 Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations 73John H. Relethford6 Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation 87Dennis H. O'Rourke7 Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology 103Rachel Caspari8 Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence 122Douglas E. Crews and Barry Bogin9 Climate-Related Human Biological Variation 140Cynthia M. Beall 10 Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics 167Lisa Sattenspiel and Carolyn Orbann11 Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of theGlobal Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases 184Christopher W. Kuzawa and Melissa B. Manus12 Ancient DNA and Disease 199Anne Stone13 Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology 210C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim14 Demography, Including Paleodemography 223Lyle W. Konigsberg George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen15 Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition 244Darna L. Dufour and Barbara A. Piperata16 Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving? 262Fabian Crespo17 Primates Defined 277W. Scott McGraw18 Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation 300Karen B. Strier19 Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example 314James F. O’Connell and Kristen Hawkes20 Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates 329Elaine N. Miller and Chet C. SherwoodPart III: The Past and the Dead 34521 Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology 347Luis L. Cabo, Dennis C. Dirkmaat, and Andrea M. Zurek-Ost22 Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order 365Mary T. Silcox and Sergi López-Torres23 Catarrhine Origins and Evolution 381David R. Begun24 The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins 400Scott W. Simpson25 Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals 421G. Philip Rightmire26 Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Subspecies: The Genetic/Genomic Revolution inPaleoanthropology 440Fred H. Smith and Whitney M. Karriger27 Bioarchaeology: Transformations in Lifestyle, Morbidity, and Mortality 458George R. Milner and Clark Spencer Larsen28 Paleopathology: A Twenty-first Century Perspective 474Jane E. Buikstra29 Forensic Anthropology: Current Issues 494Douglas H. Ubelaker30 Diet reconstruction and Ecology 510Margaret J. Schoeninger and Laurie J. Reitsema31 Current Concepts in Bone Biology 527Mary E. Cole, James H. Gosman, and Samuel D. Stout32 Deducing Attributes of Dental Growth and Development from Fossil Hominin Teeth 544Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg33 Skull: Function – New Directions 559Qian Wang and Rachel A. Menegaz34 Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been 572Christopher W. Schmidt and Peter S. Ungar35 Primate Locomotion: A Comparative and Developmental Perspective 587Michael C. Granatosky and Jesse W. Young36 Teaching Biological Anthropology: Pedagogy of Human Evolution and Human Variation 603Briana Pobiner Index 622