Anthropology 5: Proseminar in Biological Anthropology (4)
[Spring Quarter 2004]
Prof. Bruce Winterhalder
Supplemental Reading
This is a list of possibilities, a starting point, only. I have culled many of these titles from reviews appearing in American Anthropologist, American Scientist, Current Anthropology, and Evolutionary Anthropology. Explore and find a book that suits you, from among these or elsewhere (journal reviews, on-line sources, the library, etc.). Please check your selection with me before you begin reading.
Byrne, R. 1995. The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ellison, Peter T. On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Falk, Dean. 2000. Primate Diversity. New York: W. W. Norton.
Hauser, Marc. 2000. Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Heinrich, Bernd. 2001. Racing the Antelope: What Animals Can Teach Us about Running and Life. New York: HarperCollins.
Humphrey, Caroline. 1998. Marx Went Away – But Karl Stayed Behind. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Jolly, Alison. 1999. Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
McWhorter, John. 2001. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language. New York: Times Books.
Nettle, Daniel, and Suzanne Romaine. 2000. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Piperno, D.R. and Pearsall, D.M. 1998. The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics. Academic Press, San Diego.
Ross, Eric. 1998. The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development.
Strier, Karen B. 2000. Primate Behavioral Ecology. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Sykes, Bryan. 2001. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals our Genetic Ancestry. New York: W. W. Norton.
Wiessner, Polly, and Akii Tumu. 1998. Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
