Dictionary of concepts in physical anthropology
Joan C. Stevenson (Author), Raymond G. McInnis (Editor)
"Physical or biological anthropology is a synthetic discipline that has borrowed much from evolutionary biology, anatomy, genetics, medicine, zoology, paleontology, and demography. The knowledge and skills needed for one specialization, such as paleoanthropology, may differ from those required of an individual studying the impact of deforestation on non-human primate habitats. There is, however, general agreement over what should be covered in a typical introductory biological anthropology class, and most of the concepts in this book were selected from introductory textbooks. Each of the concepts is traced from its origins, which were often outside the discipline, to the contemporary, usually multidisciplinary contexts in which physical anthropologists participate. None of the concepts is unique to the discipline although their relative importance and the contexts in which they are used may be. The objective is to alert the reader to most if not all the ways in which a concept has been used in the discipline and to call attention to most of the major works on the subject. No attempt was made to be exhaustive."--from the Preface
Print Book, English, 1991
Greenwood Press, New York, 1991