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