CHAPTER 1. What Is Biological Anthropology?  

 

PART I:  The Present—Foundation for the Past   

CHAPTER 2.  Evolution: Constructing a Fundamental Scientific Theory   

CHAPTER 3.  Genetics: Reproducing Life and Producing Variation   

CHAPTER 4. Genes and Their Evolution: Population Genetics   

CHAPTER 5. Biology in the Present: Living People   

CHAPTER 6. Biology in the Present: The Other Living Primates   

CHAPTER 7. Primate Sociality, Social Behavior, and Culture   

 

PART II: The Past—Evidence for the Present  

CHAPTER 8. Fossils and Their Place in Time and Nature   

CHAPTER 9. Primate Origins and Evolution: The First 50 Million Years   

CHAPTER 10. Early Hominin Origins and Evolution: The Roots of Humanity   

CHAPTER 11. The Origins and Evolution of Early Homo   

CHAPTER 12. The Origins, Evolution, and Dispersal of Modern People   

CHAPTER 13. Our Last 10,000 Years: Agriculture, Population, and the Bioarchaeology of a Fundamental Transition   

 

PART III:  The Future—The Shape of Things to Come    

Chapter 14.  Evolution: Today and Tomorrow