Elvio Angeloni

Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology, 25/E

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• Annual Editions
• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2015
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• ISBN-13: 9781259400315
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UNIT: Evolutionary Perspectives
1. Was Darwin Wrong?, David Quammen, National Geographic, 2004.
Evolutionary theory is not just an ephemeral guess, but a well-established
set of concepts that has come to be critically important to human welfare,
medical science, and understanding the world around us.
2. The Facts of Evolution, Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters, 2006.
Evolutionary theory is rooted in a rich array of data from the past. While
the specifics of evolution are still being studied and unraveled, the
general theory is the most tested in science; spanning the past century and
a half.
3. Evolution in Action, Jonathan Weiner, Natural History, 2005. More than
250 scientists around the world are documenting evolution in action. Some
of the most dramatic cases are those that result from the ecological
pressures that human beings are imposing on the planet.
4. America's Science Problem, Shawn Lawrence Otto, Scientific American,
2012. For two centuries, science in the United States has been the means by
which we have tested assertions of ideology and has therefore been the
basis of our democracy. It has also been the leading driver of our economic
growth. Yet, despite its history and today's unprecedented riches from
science, the United States has begun to slip off its science foundation and
is being severely damaged by a coalition of religious fundamentalism and
conservative science denialism.
5. Why Should Students Learn Evolution?, Brian J. Alters and Sandra M.
Alters, Defending Evolution in the Classroom, 2001. In explaining how
organisms of today got to be the way they are, the evolutionary perspective
helps us to make sense of the history of life and explains relationships
among species. It is an essential framework within which scientists
organize and interpret observations, and make predictions about the living
world.
UNIT: Primates
6. No Alpha Males Allowed, Steve Kemper, Smithsonian, 2013. Karen Strier's
research on the muriquis monkeys of Brazil has underscored the fact that
primates are a varied group with diverse social structures and more complex
behavior than ever thought before. They may even provide us with insights
as to how our own ancestors came to the ground and became who we are today.
7. Love in the Time of Monkeys, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque and Benjamin
Finkel, Natural History, 2014. Since monogamy is the standard among humans,
but rare in the rest of the animal kingdom, it is instructive to examine
why it exists in a species of monkey where it is apparently related to
ecological resource distribution.
8. The 2% Difference, Robert Sapolsky, Discover, 2006. Now that scientists
have decoded the chimpanzee genome, we know that we share 98% of our DNA
with chimps. So how can we be so different? The answer lies in the fact
that a very few mutations make for some very big differences.
9. Got Culture?, Craig Stanford, Significant Others, 2001. The study of the
rudimentary cultural abilities of the chimpanzee not only sharpens our
understanding of our uniqueness as humans, but it also suggests an ancient
ancestry of the mental abilities that we and the chimpanzees have in
common.
10. Dim Forest, Bright Chimps, Christophe Boesch and Hedwige
Boesch-Achermann, Natural History, 1991. Contrary to expectations,
forest-dwelling chimpanzees seem to be more committed to cooperative
hunting and tool use than are savanna chimpanzees. Such findings may have
implications for the understanding of the course of human evolution.
11. Earthly Delights, Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist, 2013.
Where does-or should-our morality come from? Does it come from God or is it
ingrained in our very nature as social beings? In searching for answers,
Frans de Wall finds tendencies toward empathy in our closer mammalian and
primate relatives as well as in ourselves. While the concept of a
supernatural source may be very helpful, it is also true that, long before
present-day religious institutions our ancestors would have not survived
without some sense of right and wrong.
12. One for All, Frans de Waal, Scientific American, 2014. Although caring
tendencies are common in primates, they seem to have become an absolute
survival necessity in our human ancestors who came to cooperate with each
other on a much more extensive level, shared in a reciprocal manner and
identified with others in need, pain or distress.
13. Friends with Benefits, Lauren Brent, New Scientist Magazine, 2014.
Recent research shows that human friendship is of critical importance for
the biological, psychological and social health of our species and the
converse is also true: social isolation leads to stress, illness and death.
14. The "It" Factor, Gary Stix, Scientific American, 2014. The once
prevailing view that only humans could make and use tools as well as reason
using numbers and other symbols has fallen by the way side. The more we
learn about the way other primates think, the more we find that the
differences between them and us has to do our capacity to engage in shared
tasks as evidenced in our ancestors' hunting large game and building
cities.
UNIT: Sex and Gender
15. What Are Friends For?, Barbara Smuts, Natural History, 1987. An
understanding of friendship bonds that exist among baboons is not only
destroying our stereotypes about monkeys in the wild, but is also calling
into question the traditional views concerning the relationships between
the sexes in early hominid evolution.
16. What's Love Got to Do with It?: Sex among Our Closest Relatives Is a
Rather Open Affair, Meredith F. Small, Discover, 1992. The bonobos' use of
sex to reduce tension and to form alliances is raising some interesting
questions regarding human evolution. Does this behavior help to explain the
origin of our sexuality? Or should we see it as just another primate
aberration that occurred after the split from the human lineage?
17. The Double Life of Women, Annie Murphy Paul, Psychology Today, 2010.
Women actually have two sexualities, one when they are ovulating and the
other during the rest of the month. Moreover, the invisible turns of the
reproductive cycle shape the everyday behavior of both women and men as her
cycle influences not just her preference in a partner, but her personality
as well.
18. Powers of Two, Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 2014. Theories abound
as to why humans are primarily monogamous since most mammals are not, but
pair-bonding does seems to have something to do with the way in which our
ancestors cooperated in food-getting and sharing and what would seem to
have been the most effective way to raise large-brained offspring in need
of prolonged care.
19. When Do Girls Rule the Womb?, Jennifer Abbasi, Discover, 2013. While
demographers have pointed to cultural factors to explain the sex ratio
imbalance which favors the birth of boys over girls in such societies as
China, India and South Korea, they have not been able to explain why the
same trends in sex ratio at birth exist in societies that do not value sons
more than daughters and, furthermore, why in certain situations, regardless
of cultural preferences, more girls may be born than boys. Perhaps an
evolutionary model is in order.
UNIT: The Fossil Evidence
20. Our True Dawn, Catherine Brahic, New Scientist Magazine, 2012. As
paleontologists have searched for fossil remains to establish the timing of
the evolutionary split between our ancestors and apes, geneticists have
tackled the same problem using DNA. After earlier disagreeing with the
fossil hunters, calling for a significantly later time for the split, the
geneticists' new molecular clock may well prove the paleontologists right.
21. Welcome to the Family, Bernard Wood, Scientific American, 2014. Once
upon a time, the consensus regarding the ancestry of Homo sapiens was
rather straightforward with one genus begetting another in a straight line
with very few sidetracks. Fossil finds over the past 40 years, however,
have completely shattered this view.
22. The First Cookout, Kate Wong, Scientific American Online, 2012. Once
our ancestors began cooking their food, their brains got larger, their
anatomy changed, and they were enabled to hunt more effectively for meat.
Without fire, we might not even exist.
23. Rethinking Neanderthals, Joe Alper, Smithsonian, 2003. Contrary to the
widely held view that Neanderthals were evolutionary failures, the fact is
that they persisted through some of the harshest climates imaginable. Over
a period of 200,000 years, they had made some rather sophisticated tools
and have had a social life that involved taking care of the wounded and
burying the dead.
24. Neandertal Minds, Kate Wong, Scientific American, 2015. It has long
been held that Neandertals lagged behind anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
So far, the functional significance of DNA differences is unclear, but
recent discoveries of Neandertal cultural remains seem to have narrowed the
supposed mental gap and suggest that factors other than intelligence drove
the Neandertals to extinction and allowed Homo sapiens to f lourish.
25. Human Hybrids, Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American Online, 2013. The
recovery of DNA from fossil hominins such as the Neanderthals is enabling
us to make genetic comparisons with modern populations. From such analyses,
we are increasingly able to reconstruct the migrations of ancient peoples,
figure out who mated with whom along the way and, perhaps, the implications
of such interbreeding for modern human health.
UNIT: Late Hominid Evolution
26. The Story in the Stones, David Robson, New Scientist Magazine, 2014.
Several lines of evidence, including stone tool construction, neuroscience,
psychology and archaeology, are being combined to estimate the origins of
the distinctly human mental abilities that set us off from our primate
relatives and ancestors and enabled our species to survive some very
challenging times.
27. King of Beasts, Lars Werdelin, Scientific American Online, 2013. Africa
once harbored a far greater variety of large carnivores than it does today.
Competition with early humans for access to prey may have brought about
their decline.
28. The Birth of Childhood, Ann Gibbons, Science Magazine, 2008. Unlike our
closest relatives, the apes, humans depend on their parents for a long
period after weaning. New investigative technology has allowed researchers
to determine when and why our long childhood evolved.
29. The Evolution of Grandparents, Rachel Caspari, Scientific American,
2011. A marked increase in survivorship of adults in the Upper Paleolithic
had far-reaching effects on the nature of society. The appearance of a
grandparental generation meant more resources available to the group,
significant population increases, and a greater efficiency in the
transmission and accumulation of cultural knowledge for future generations.
These changes may very well have accounted for our ancestors being the only
hominid species left standing.
30. A Bigger, Better Brain, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig Stanford, American
Scientist, 2010. The diverse food-getting strategies employed by dolphin
and ape societies are an excellent gauge of their social complexity as well
as an example of how brain complexity, social complexity, and ecological
complexity are all linked.
31. The Naked Truth, Nina G. Jablonski, Scientific American, 2010. Recent
findings lay bare the origins of human hairlessness and hint that naked
skin was a key factor in the emergence of other human traits, such as the
ability to cover long distances in the pursuit of food.
32. Long Live the Humans, Heather Pringle, Scientific American Online,
2013. Modern genomes and ancient mummies are yielding clues to why the life
span of Homo sapiens far exceeds that of other primates. The new evidence
comes with a warning, however. While certain genes may be contributing to
our long-term survival, they may also play a role in causing some
debilitating diseases in old age.
33. Searching for the Human Age, Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Discover, 2014.
Some scientists are searching for evidence that Earth has entered the
Anthropocene, a new epoch defined by the idea that humans have surpassed
nature as the primary shapers of the planet.
UNIT: Human Diversity
34. Skin Deep, Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin, Scientific American,
2002. Although recent migrations and cultural adaptation tend to complicate
the picture, human skin color has evolved to be dark enough to prevent
sunlight from destroying the nutrient folate, but light enough to foster
the production of vitamin D.
35. How Real Is Race? Using Anthropology to Make Sense of Human Diversity,
Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze, Phi Delta Kappan, 2003. The
authors claim that race is not a scientifically valid biological category.
Instead, looking at it as a historically specific way of thinking about
categorizing and treating human beings, race can be seen as a cultural
invention.
36. The Tall and the Short of It, Barry Bogin, Discover, 1998. Rather than
being able to adapt to a single environment, we can, thanks to our
genetically endowed plasticity, change our bodies to cope with a wide
variety of environments. In this light, research suggests that we can use
the average height of any group of people as a barometer of the health of
that particular society.
37. Dead Men Do Tell Tales, William R. Maples, Random House Inc, 1994. This
classic piece by Maples maintains its relevance as a plea for the continued
and expanded use of forensic anthropology. There are just too many stories
yet to be told and so much justice yet to be carried out.
38. Evolution: Why Are Most of Us Right-Handed?, Jason G. Goldman, Body
Matters, 2014. Right-handedness in humans may be related to the fact that
our ancestors became upright in posture, made tools, and came to
communicate with language. Although the minorities of people who are
left-handed do not seem to be at a disadvantage, the fact that the left
part of the brain controls the right side may have something to do with the
fact that most of us did become right-handed.
39. Still Evolving (After All These Years), John Hawks, Scientific American
, 2014. Many people argue that our technological advancement -- our ability
to defy and control nature -- has made humans exempt from natural selection
and that human evolution has effectively ceased. However, human populations
are continuing to evolve today. Unlike the distant past, where we must
infer the action of selection from its long-term effects on genes, today
scientists can watch human evolution in action, often by studying trends in
health and reproduction.
UNIT: Living with the Past
40. The Perfect Plague, Jared Diamond and Nathan Wolfe, Discover, 2008.
Globalization, changing climate, and the threat of drug resistance have
conspired to set the stage for that perfect microbial storm; a situation in
which an emerging pathogen-another HIV or smallpox perhaps-might burst on
the scene and kill millions of people before we can respond.
41. The Inuit Paradox, Patricia Gadsby, Discover, 2004. The traditional
diet of the Far North, with its high-protein, high-fat content, and shows
that there are no essential foods-only essential nutrients.
42. The Food Addiction, Paul J. Kenny, Scientific American Online, 2013.
During millions of years of evolution, the major concern of humans was not
suppressing appetite, but getting enough food to persist in lean times.
Perhaps, says the author, our feeding circuits are better at motivating
food intake when we are hungry than they are in suppressing food intake
when we are full-and therein lies the problem: the brain regards the
overeating of high-calorie food as tremendously beneficial.
43. Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto, Jared Diamond, Discover, 1991.
Tay-Sachs disease is a choosy killer, one that has targeted Eastern
European Jews above all others for centuries. By decoding its lethal logic,
we can learn a great deal about how genetic diseases evolve-and how they
can be conquered.
44. The Evolution of Diet, Ann Gibbons, National Geographic, 2014. The
transition from the Paleolithic way of life, in which our ancestors hunted
for meat and gathered vegetables, to one with agriculture and processed
foods, has had a lasting impact on human health. Questions arise, however,
as to the degree to which humans have adapted to the changing circumstances
or are simply going to suffer the consequences of abandoning the
"paleo-diet."
45. Ironing It Out, Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical
Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease , 2007. Hemochromatosis is a
hereditary disease that disrupts the human body's ability to metabolize
iron. To understand why such a deadly disease would be bred into our
genetic code, we need to take a closer look at European history, the
bubonic plague, and medical practices that were discredited.
46. Why We Help, Martin A. Nowak, Scientific American, 2012. The author
observes that there has been a pervasive selfishness among humans over the
past 5,000 years of history, ever since the development of agriculture.
Yet, an understanding of our behavioral roots in ancient hunter gatherer
societies, combined with more recent analyses of game theory and computer
simulations of human social interaction, indicate that it has been
cooperation and reciprocity driving the evolution of life and of humans,
not selfishness and "tooth and claw" competition.
47. Don't Swallow Them, Caroline Williams, New Scientist Magazine, 2013. We
are constantly being bombarded with health advice, but not all of it is
based on rigorous scientific evidence. In considering the circumstances in
which our ancestors evolutionarily adapted, when they could not possibly
have followed such rules, we have to wonder where some of those ideas came
from.
48. The Evolution of Inequality, Deborah Rogers, New Scientist Magazine,
2012. Humans lived in egalitarian societies for tens of thousands of years
before the development of agriculture. Maintaining a level playing field
was a matter of survival. Then, with agriculture, wealth and authority
became more centralized, and the more hierarchically organized societies
eliminated the more egalitarian ones. A "survival-of-the fittest" social
structure is, therefore, not inevitable, but is a matter of choice.