Ten years ago, the first edition of A Companion to Biological Anthropology explored the rapidly growing field of biological anthropology through a collection of 31 essays written by leading scholars, who?shaped the direction and scope of the discipline. Many recent innovations and discoveries are transforming this subject after a decade, and the second edition of the companion aims to investigate the current and future directions of biological anthropology with a fresh approach.Under the expert editorial direction of Clark Spencer Larsen, the new edition of the Companion to Biological Anthropology will comprise 37 entries, including revised and updated versions of all original articles and six articles new to the second edition. An expanded pool of authors, all experts in the field, revisit key topics in biological anthropology from the genetics and genomics of human populations, to human growth and development, to social behaviour, while also covering recent and current trends. With attention focused on the rapidly changing field of biological anthropology, new entries tackle such subject as race, newly emerging infectious diseases, catastrophic disease outbreaks, access to food and resources, inequality in human societies.This new Companion promises to build on the legacy of the bestselling first edition as one of the defining reference texts on the market for biological anthropology. The Companion is the ideal resource for students and researchers in biological anthropology and other related disciplines such as geosciences, bone biology, nutrition science, biogeochemistry, and behavioural ecology.
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