Tag: ANTH 110

This OER introduces students to the four sub-disciplines of anthropology: cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. The chapters are mostly derivative works that draw upon Perspectives, Explorations, and other previously published OER, and are augmented by the authors’ contributions. The editors’ goals are to present diverse perspectives and contemporary research across all four …

Introduction to Anthropology: A Four Field Approach (Edited by Pawlowicz; Brooks; Phaup; and Rector) (CC-BY-NC)Read More »

A comprehensive, peer-reviewed, multi-authored OER for introductory biological anthropology courses. This book chapters explore evolutionary theory, genetics, nonhuman primates origin/evolution, hominin origin/evolution, human adaptation, and other topics. Provides ancillaries, including lecture slides, guided reading notes, and testbank. A complete lab manual, with 2-4 labs/activities per chapter is also available.

This textbook introduces students to evolutionary theory, nonhuman primates, and human evolution.

Developed by a California Community College faculty member, this is an introductory biological anthropology OER textbook. The text (except quotations) is licensed under CC-BY-NC, but the author notes “be careful with the graphics.”

This book includes a section on nonhuman primate origins, but the main focus of the book is on hominin species beginning in the Miocene. This resource from Open SUNY “is designed as a textbook for a course on Human Evolution but can also serve as an introductory text for relevant sections of courses in Biological …

The History of Our Tribe: Hominini (Welker, 2017) (CC-BY-NC-SA)Read More »

This ebook is distributed free through the support of Smashwords, Open Universities Australia and Enculture Press. Focused on the origins of our species (Homo sapiens), this book is an introduction to evolutionary theory and to human origins.