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A Companion to Biological Anthropology

This book is a very useful, complete compendium of contemporary anthropology recognised as “holistic approach to understanding the human condition, both from cultural and from biological perspectives”. A Companion to Biological Anthropology edited by Clark Spencer Larsen and published in 2010 by Wiley-Blackwell is organized along the line that studying the present populations can inform our understanding of the past ones. The book consists of thirty one chapters which have been grouped in five parts presenting key aspects of biological anthropology from evolution, genetics, phylogeny and behaviour in humans and primates in general to the variation in health and lifestyle, forensic applications, population history and ancient DNA study, dietary reconstruction as well as biology and function of the skeleton and dentition both in past and living humans. The first chapter is devoted to the history of biological (physical) anthropology in the United States – anthropology as an exploration of human origins and human variation. The second and the third chapter concerns human evolution, systematics, taxonomy and phylogenetics. The fourth chapter contains basic information essen-