• NEW - Expanded sections on genetics—New chapter on Darwinian evolution (Chapter 2); new chapter on classic genetics (Chapter 3).

  • Provides students with a clearer emphasis on Mendelian genetics and gives new emerging data on genetics and natural selection.

• NEW - New chapter on the living primates: their distribution and anatomical adaptations. (Ch. 7)

  • Provides more complete information that was not covered in the previous edition.

• NEW - Expanded section on Homo , including a new chapter on Homo sapiens.

  • Gives students a greater understanding of new fossil discoveries and their interpretations.

• NEW - New chapter on hominoid and human behavior (Ch. 13)—Combines the evolution of hominoid behavior and the evolution of human social behavior.

  • Provides a more coherent presentation of the evolution of the development of social behavior.

• NEW - Expanded technology package—Integrates new Media Labs and Internet exercises in every chapter with the Companion Website.

  • Gives students an opportunity to view difficult concepts in different media settings and to review concepts and issues on an individual chapter basis.

• NEW - Expanded box series—Frontiers and Research Highlights allow students to explore important concepts in each chapter.

  • Gives students detailed help in understanding the concepts in each chapter.

• An evolutionary, narrative approach to teaching biological anthropology.

  • Gives the book a voice as it proposes that evolution is the single most defining narrative to explain the development of biological anthropology.

• A clear organizational structure—Chapters are arranged chronologically.

  • Enables students to build their understanding from the simple to the more complex.

• To benefit the field of anthropology, 5% of the royalties earned from text adoptions will be donated to the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation to fund new research in the field.

Noel T. Boaz is founder of the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research in Oregon and Professor of Anatomy at Ross University School of Medicine. Dr. Boaz received his Ph.D. in biological anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and is currently working on his M.D. degree. A paleoanthropologist with many years of field experience in Africa, his most recent research has been on Chinese Homo erectus. Other research interests include earliest hominid origins, paleoecology, evolutionary medicine, and forensic anthropology. In 1999, Dr. Boaz was scientific planning director in Bosnia for Physicians for Human Rights. His most recent publications include Eco Homo (1997), an ecological history of the human species, and Evolving Health (2002), an application of human evolutionary biology to preventive medicine.

Alan J. Almquist is Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Hayward. Dr. Almquist received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1974 at the University of California, Berkeley. A dedicated teacher, he has also headed the Clarence Smith Museum of Anthropology at Hayward and has undertaken fieldwork at early hominid sites in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Current research interests include the evolution of human sexual behavior and paleoanthropology. Publications include Milestones in Human Evolution (1993) edited with Ann Manyak; a reader, Human Sexuality (1995) with Andrei Simic and Patricia Omidian; and Contemporary Readings in Physical Anthropology (2000), a collection of articles from the New York Times, edited by Dr. Almquist and published by Prentice Hall.