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Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective
- Narrated by: Barbara J. King
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
Who are we? It's a question humankind has been asking about itself for a long time.
But when we consider ourselves not as static beings fixed in time, but as ever-changing creatures, our viewpoint of human history becomes much more captivating. The question is no longer "Who are we?" but "What have we become? And what are we becoming?
"What makes this new viewpoint possible is the evolutionary perspective offered by biological anthropology, through which we study the evolution, genetics, anatomy, and modern variation of the human species. In this series of 24 captivating lectures, an award-winning teacher and acclaimed scholar delves into the story of how, why, where, and when we became human.
You'll gain a fresh understanding of the forces that have shaped our species, as Professor King synthesizes the best that more than a century of scientific scholarship has to offer across a variety of disciplines, including primate anatomy and behavior - to understand evolution and to learn more about our common ancestor - and molecular anthropology, to gain the insights offered by fossils, ancient skeletal remains, and lifestyle information like cave art and stone tools.
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- Maria
- 07-10-15
Read Hrdy also
great discussions but has crucial perspectives missing. I recommend this but not without also reading Hrdy's Mothernature and Mothers and Others
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- Mario
- 09-02-15
Excellent course
Excellent course which I can recommend to anyone interested in the field. It is comprehensibly and wonderfully presented. Many thanks to the lecturer!
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- Luuk
- 31-12-19
Wonderful but too old
Biological anthropology is a field that is constantly changing with new discoveries made all the time. It is therefore a pity that this otherwise very interesting and well presented course is so old that some of the more crucial arguments made have already been rejected thanks to new discoveries, particularly the relationship between homo erectus, and homo neanderthalensis and homo habilis.
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- Peter Smith
- 23-03-17
Very interesting look at our origins and much more
Really enjoyed this and learnt a lot. Loved Barbara King's delivery - very balanced, authoritative and clear.
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- Sean
- 11-03-16
Good for a historical perspective - but be careful
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Perhaps, if I knew the friend was aware of more recent genome work. Obviously in a science book we have to expect the material to go out of date, and unlike literature - it matters if we are hearing a period piece. This is a very good course, presented very well and with an engaging style - but - when I came to the author/reader's choices (when a equally weighted evidence argument was available) from Neanderthal onwards, she had come down on the wrong 'side' (based on recent genomics). Not her fault, just a sign that this course is now quite dated because of recent leaps in discovery. It made me question her other decisions and whether I was learning an outdated view.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
I did not know much about habilis and erectus before, so that was my favourite part - also some of the sociology of the people (e.g. the Leakey family) making the fossil discoveries (I'm more familiar with Paabo et al.).
Would you listen to another book narrated by Professor Barbara J. King?
Yes, I'd like to hear an update based on the last decade of discveries.
If this book were a film would you go see it?
Possibly, but it would more likely be on the Discovery Channel.
Any additional comments?
As an academic, I don't read (or write) textbooks any more in my area (genomics, bioinformatics) because they go out of date before they are published. I'm not being critical here, I'm just suggesting that a reader should be following up - it really is a good listen but treat it as a snapshot and follow up....
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- HJ
- 27-07-20
Pretty bad to be fair
Talks a lot without really saying a lot - has a bad habit of stating that she's going to discuss something and then not doing it, and then going off on some tangent or making some social observation. Feel like I've wasted 10 hours.
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- Richard Tol
- 10-05-22
Dated and slow
This book is now 20 years old and in parts badly out of date. Between the announcements, and announcements of announcements, and the editorializing, occasional sermonizing, the information density is fairly low. The tribalism is off-putting.
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