Preface
1. What Is Anthropology, What Is Biological Anthropology, and Should I Be Getting Science Credit for This? (On the Philosophy of Science)
Theme
What Is Anthropology?
The Subfields of Anthropology
The Anthropology of Science
The Normative View of Science: Scientific
Method
The Social Matrix of Science
Relativizing Science
The Origins of Anthropology
The Origins of Physical Anthropology
Biological Anthropology Today
References and Further Reading
2. Where Did Our Scientific Ideas about Ourselves Come From? (On the History of
Science)
Theme
The Beginnings of a New View of Nature
The Scientific Revolution
The Decline of Degeneration
The Anatomy of a "Pygmie"
Biblical Fallibility, or at Least Incompleteness
Monogenism
Cause and Effect
The Great Chain of Being
Buffon's Objection to
the Nested Hierarchy
Extinction
Natural Theology
Uniformitarian Geology
Adam's World
Human Evolution
References and Further Reading
3. Can You Tell If You Are a Darwinist? (On Theories of Evolution)
Theme
Darwin's Argument
Where People Fit In
The
Sacrifice
Implications for Pattern
Implications for Species
Implications for Biological History
Implications for Relating Humans to Other Animals
Phylogeny: The Core of Darwinism
Other Darwinisms
Social Darwinism
Neo-Darwinism
The "Synthetic Theory"
Evolution
at the Molecular Level
Punctuated Equilibria
Sociobiology
Universal Darwinism
Atheistic Darwinism
References and Further Reading
4. Why Do I Look Like the Cable Guy, Daddy? (On Issues of Human Heredity)
Theme
The Theory of Particulate Inheritance: Mendel's
Laws
Ten Non-Mendelian Laws
The Chromosome Theory
Linkage
Crossing-Over
Polygenic Inheritance
Environmental Influence on Phenotypes
Unit Characters
Properties of Heterozygotes
Pleiotropy
Imprinting
Extra-nuclear Inheritance
The Molecular Genomic Basis
of Heredity
The Alpha-Globin Gene Cluster
Mutation
Meanings of the Gene and Genetics
References and Further Reading
5. Are We Here? If So, Why? (On Issues of Microevolution)
Theme
Do Things Exist for a Reason?
Principal Abstraction: The Gene Pool
Gene
Flow
Inbreeding
Natural Selection
Genetic Drift
Sickle Cell
Why Is the Gene Pool the Way It Is?
Adaptation or Founder Effect?
Another Point Illustrated by Sickle Cell and Phenylketonuria
Sickle Cell, Tay-Sachs, and Genetic Screening
Kinship as a Biocultural
Construction
Genetic History and the Diversity Project
Who Owns the Body?
References and Further Reading
6. Building Better Monkeys, or at Least Different Ones (On Systematics)
Theme
Speciation
Specific Mate Recognition Systems
Genetic Systems Producing
Incompatibility
Species as Individuals
Levels and Rates of Evolution
Developmental Genetics
Allometric Growth
Extinction
Classification
Systematics and Phylogeny
Classical and Cladistic Taxonomy
Phylogenetics
Limitations of the Phylogenetic
Method
References and Further Reading
7. Is That an Ape in Your Genes, or Are You Just Glad to See Me? (On the Place of Humans in the Natural Order)
Theme
Primate Classification
Problems of Uniformitarianism
Genetic and Anatomical Data
The Mammals
Our Place in Primate
Systematics
The Living Apes
The Trichotomy
Cladism, Reductionism, and the Rise of the Hominins
What Does It Mean to Be 98% Genetically Chimpanzee?
References and Further Reading
8. Apes Run Around Naked, Live in Trees, and Fling Their Poo. Do You? (On the Relevance of Apes to
Understanding Humans)
Theme
What Primates Can and Can't Tell Us
Primate Fieldwork
Primates in Groups
Social Behavior and Ecology
Food
Sexual Activity and Parenthood
Models for Human Evolution
Baboons in the Sixties, Chimps in the Nineties
Looking Elsewhere for
Clues about Human Evolution
The Ape Mind
Culture
Conservation
References and Further Reading
9. Being and Becoming (On the Relevance of Humans to Understanding Humans)
Theme
Human Nature
The Most Fundamental Human Adaptation: Bipedalism
Why Be Bipedal?
The
Second Fundamental Human Adaptation: The Teeth
Why Reduce the Canines?
The Third Fundamental Human Adaptation: The Brain
Why Be Big Brained?
Social and Life-History Novelties
Physiological and Sexual Novelties
What Does It Take to Make a Scenario of Human Evolution
Valuable?
Cultural Evolution
References and Further Reading
10. If History Is Humanities, and Evolution Is Science, What Is Paleoanthropology? (On the Assumptions of a Diachronic Science)
Theme
Scientific Inferences Across Time
Skeletal Biology
Sexual
Dimorphism
Ontogeny
Geographic Variation
Paleopathology
Sources of Morphological Variation
Lumping and Splitting
Fossilization
Other Considerations
Rights and Responsibilities in Paleoanthropology
Kinds of Evidence
Superposition and
Association
Dating
Doing the Best We Can with Lost Data
Making Sense of Human Ancestry
Classifying the Living Apes and Fossil Ancestors
References and Further Reading
11. The Dental and the Mental (On Making Sense of the Early Diversification of the Human
Lineage)
Theme
The Shadow of Piltdown Man
A Hominid Origin
Discovery of the Australopithecines
Australopithecus: Basal Bipeds
Paranthropus-The Dental Adaptation
Early Homo: The Mental Adaptation
The Beginning of Cultural Evolution
References and Further
Reading
12. What to Do When Confronted by a Neandertal (On Continuity and Discontinuity)
Theme
The Human Lineage
The Mental and Social Life of Homo erectus
Homo sapiens, the Wise Species
Neandertal Life
Anatomically Modern People
The Emergence of Art
The Political
Nature of Ancestry
Testing Paleontological Models Genetically
References and Further Reading
13. Just How Different Is Different? (On Race)
Theme
Race
Patterns of Contemporary Human Variation
Why Do We See Races?
Race as a Biocultural Category
Asking Scientific
Questions about Human Diversity
Race Is to Ethnicity as Sex Is to Gender, But Not Quite
What Is Innate?
Patterns of Human Genetic and Behavioral Variation
References and Further Reading
14. Nature/Culture, or How Science Manages to Give Little Answers to Big Questions (On the
Non-reductive Core of Anthropology)
Theme
Adaptability and the Human Condition
Folk Theories of Heredity
The State of the Species
The Anthropology of Science
Bioethics
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA): Who Owns the Bones?
Origin Myths,
Scientific and Otherwise
Biocultural Studies, or Cyborg Anthropology
References and Further Reading
Index
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Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of several books, including Is Science Racist? (2017) and Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge (2009).
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