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Title Details:
Biological Anthropology in Practice
Other Titles: Laboratory exercises
Authors: Valakos, Efstratios
Nikita, Efthymia
Papavasileiou, Sevasti
Reviewer: Eliopoulos, Constantine
Subject: MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Keywords:
Human Skeleton
Sex Determination
Estimating Age At Death
Paleodemography
Human Biological Diversity
Primates
Systematics
Phylogeny
Human Evolution
Evolutionary Processes
Data Analysis
Description:
Abstract:
The Laboratory Guide is addressed to students taking the course in Physical Anthropology. The book is addressed not only to students in the Departments of Biology and Biosciences but also to students in other disciplines, such as Archaeology. The Guide is divided into four sections, each containing individual chapters which correspond to individual exercises. In the first chapter (Module A) the human skeleton is presented in detail and students learn to identify the parts of the skeleton, the individual bones with their anatomical characteristics and their anatomical position. In the second chapter, students learn to identify gender using skeletal characters, while in the next chapter, in addition to determining the age of individuals using skeletal features, students become familiar with the methodology of paleodemography. Chapter four deals with the study of musculoskeletal anamnesis as a means of drawing conclusions about the activity levels of individuals and populations, while chapter five introduces students to the main diseases that can be identified in skeletal remains, and the conclusions that can be drawn from each of them about lifestyle and living levels in the past. The next two chapters (Module B) deal with the ways in which human diversity is approached, either in skeletons (Chapter Six) or in individuals (Chapter Seven); Chapter Eight (Module C) deals with the systematics and evolution of the arboreal primates and fossil forms of the australopithecines, while Chapter Nine deals with the systematics of Homo. The next two chapters are concerned with familiarising students with the use of molecular databases and their processing (chapter ten), while the final chapter is concerned with the study of evolutionary forces by simulation (chapter eleven). The last section includes appendices and individual data processing topics (statistical tests, etc.).
Technical Editors: Kokolakis, Antonios
Type: Laboratory Guide
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
ISBN 978-960-603-154-0
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-629
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/3843
Bibliographic Reference: Valakos, E., Nikita, E., & Papavasileiou, S. (2015). Biological Anthropology in Practice [Laboratory Guide]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-629
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΟΥ ΣΚΕΛΕΤΟΥ
2. ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΗΣ ΣΚΕΛΕΤΙΚΗΣ ΔΟΜΗΣ
3. ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΦΥΛΟΥ
4. ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΗΛΙΚΙΑΣ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ-ΑΡΧΕΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ
5. ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΑΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ
6. ΔΕΙΚΤΕΣ ΔΡΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ
7. ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΜΕΤΡΙΑ & ΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΜΟΡΦΙΑ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΩΝ Ι
8. ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΜΕΤΡΙΑ & ΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΜΟΡΦΙΑ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΩΝ ΙΙ
9. ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΞΕΛΙΚΤΙΚΩΝ ΔΥΝΑΜΕΩΝ
10. ΠΡΩΤΕΥΟΝΤΑ Ι: Μελέτη Πρωτευόντων, χρήση ταξινομικών χαρακτήρων, κατασκευή δενδρογραμμάτων
11. ΠΡΩΤΕΥΟΝΤΑ IΙ: Μελέτη του Homo και των στενών συγγενών του
12. ΠΡΩΤΕΥΟΝΤΑ ΙΙΙ
Number of pages 430
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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