Evolution And History

Anthropology, Science, and the Humanities 17 Anthropologists of Note Franz Boas (1858–1942) ■ Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849–1915) ...

18 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology The validity or the reliability of a researcher’s conclu- sions is established throug ...

Fieldwork 19 Original Study Fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa: Traditional Healers on the Front Line by Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala In the ...

20 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology healers who have been trained in AIDS education say they would opt for less collabora ...

Questions of Ethics 21 to individuals who provide information—and obtain their informed consent, or formal recorded agreement to ...

22 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology greater community. Everything possible must be done to protect their physical, social ...

Anthropology and Globalization 23 everybody’s life on the planet, globalization is about eco- nomics as much as politics, and it ...

24 CHAPTER 1 | The Essence of Anthropology afforded by marriage.^11 In some societies—including Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands ...

Suggested Readings 25 Questions for Reflection Anthropology uses a holistic approach to explain all aspects of human beliefs, b ...

© Imagemore Co., Ltd./Corbis Challenge Issue The genetics revolution has given new meaning to human identity. Police identify cr ...

27 Genetics and Evolution CHAPTER 2 Chapter Preview What Is the Molecular Basis of Evolution? Scientists began to understand the ...

28 CHAPTER 2 | Genetics and Evolution The mythology of most peoples includes a story explaining the appearance of humans on eart ...

The Classification of Living Things 29 closer than either cows or horses are to chickens, which lay eggs and have no mammary gla ...

30 CHAPTER 2 | Genetics and Evolution Taxonomic Category Category to Which Humans Belong Biological Features Used to Define and ...

The Discovery of Evolution 31 © Dana Walrath An example of analogy: The wings of birds and butterflies are both used for flight ...

32 CHAPTER 2 | Genetics and Evolution Today Darwinian natural selection can be defined as the evolutionary process through which ...

Heredity 33 law of segregation, which states that pairs of genes separate and keep their individuality and are passed on to the ...

34 CHAPTER 2 | Genetics and Evolution of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)—long strands of which form chromosomes. DNA is a complex mo ...

Heredity 35 chemical, structural, and regulatory thing that is done in the body: they generate energy, fight infection, digest f ...

36 CHAPTER 2 | Genetics and Evolution known genes, also replicates. Mistakes can occur in the replication process, adding or sub ...