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"Create the best physical anthropology experience for your students! Our Origins, Fourth Edition, helps students engage with the "big picture" of human evolution. Innovative media, photorealistic art, rigorously current content, new animations, new custom-produced Anthropology Matters videos, and InQuizitive adaptive learning deliver everything needed to teach a state-of-the-art class"--The publisher.
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This film provides an introduction to the history of anthropology as a discipline and explains how physical and cultural anthropology differ. Examine the archaeological methods anthropologist use including artifact collection, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and the grid system.
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Planet earth is full of life, but how did life begin? All living things are made up of the same chemical elements, and yet are so diverse. In this program, learn about the principal characteristics of living organisms and their evolution through time, DNA, the beginning of Earth's formation 4.5 billion years ago, and the theories of Oparin and Miller.
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Studies of the fossil record reveal evolutionary developments in early primates, including Miocene hominoids. This program examines the concept of biocultural evolution relative to other great apes and highlights the dispersal of Genus Homo throughout Africa, Indonesia, China, and Europe.
16) Primates
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This film reviews the characteristics that differentiate primate species and looks at adaptations that influenced geographic distribution, habits, diet, teeth, and locomotion. The presentation highlights primate classifications including prosimians, anthropoids, and hominoids, and considers social and cultural behaviors among primates.
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Drawing upon the history of early humans and highlighting contemporary indigenous lifeways, John Grim, School of Forestry, and Environmental Studies, Yale University, and Melissa Nelson, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, explain the sustaining power of ritual and celebratory acts that locate humans within the rhythms of Earth's transformative systems.
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We humans consider ourselves unique. In terms of evolution, our ancestors and cousins have all died out. But groundbreaking discoveries made in the last few years have transformed our beliefs about our past. We now know there were at least four distinct species of human alive on the planet at the same time--and possibly more. Who were these "lost tribes" of humanity? What happened when we met them? And where did they all go? The answers strike deep...
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Life appeared on our planet many millions of years ago. In this program, explore humankind’s unwritten history and the theory of our evolution. Topics include: characteristics of prehistoric man, Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon men, Homo sapiens, and primates—their origins, characteristics, skulls, and evolution.
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