by Craig Stanford, John Allen, Susan Anton

Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind covers the foundations of the discipline as well as modern innovations and discoveries. Each a practicing researcher in the field, authors Craig Stanford, John Allen and Susan Antón offer a specialist approach that gives you everything you need to master the subject.

The 5th Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest findings in the field. Fresh topics include collaborative genomic work with indigenous peoples and the biocultural anthropology of vaccine hesitancy. Other new focus areas include the impact of climate change on human biology, information about new archaeological signals of large game hunting by Neandertals, and new material on determining handedness in the fossil record.