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eBook details
- Authors: Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan, Russell L. Ciochon
- File Size: 92 MB
- Format: PDF
- Length: 576 Pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 14th edition
- Publication Date: February 20, 2013
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1285061977, 1285607058, 1285689925, 1285062035
- ISBN-13: 9781285061979, 9781285607054, 9781285300726, 9781285062037
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About The Author
Lynn Kilgore
Dr. Lynn Kilgore holds an associate faculty position at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she earned her Ph.D. Osteology and paleopathology are her main research interests.
Her research focuses on developmental abnormalities, illness, and trauma in the skeletons of humans and great apes.
She has taught courses in human osteology, primate behaviour, human heredity and evolution, and general physical anthropology to graduates and undergraduate students.
Robert Jurmain
Dr. Robert Jurmain graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Anthropology and Harvard with a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology. He was a professor emeritus at San Jose State University from 1975 to 2004.
He taught courses in all major branches of physical anthropology, including osteology and human evolution, throughout his teaching career, with an emphasis on general education for introductory students. His research interests include human and non-human primate skeletal biology, paleopathology, and paleoanthropology.
He is the author of Stories From The Skeleton: Behavioral Reconstruction In Human Osteology, as well as several publications in research journals, in addition to his three textbooks, which have been published in 35 editions.
Russell L. Ciochon
Dr. Russell L. Ciochon is a leading paleoanthropologist specializing in human and primate evolution in Asia, as well as the geochronology of Asian Plio-Pleistocene sites. He earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches at the University of Iowa, where he is Chair of the Department of Anthropology.
Dr. Ciochon teaches courses in non-human and hominin primate evolution, as well as ecology, primate behavior, and functional anatomy. Besides co-authoring more than one hundred technical articles, Russell has also co-written two popular books: Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice Age Saga Of Homo Erectus and Other Origins: The Search For The Giant Ape In Prehistory.
Wenda Trevathan
Dr. Wenda Trevathan is an anthropology regents' professor emerita at New Mexico State University, where she taught from 1983 to 2009.
She's a biological anthropologist who studies the evolutionary and biocultural factors that influence human reproduction, such as puberty, sexuality, maternal activity, and menopause.
Her main writings cover topics such as childbirth evolution and evolutionary medicine.
Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives: How Evolution Has Shaped Women'S Health and Costly And Cute: Helpless Infants And Human Evolution are two of her most recent ebooks.
She is also the Editor in Chief of the International Encyclopedia Of Biological Anthropology.
Physical anthropology, nutritional anthropology, medical anthropology, evolutionary medicine, and anthropology of reproduction are among the subjects she has taught.
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