Preface
1. What Is Anthropology, What Is Biological Anthropology, and
Should I Be Getting Science Credit for This? (On the Philosophy of
Science)
What is Anthropology?
The Subfields of Anthropology
The Anthropology of Science
The Normative View of Science: Scientific Method
The Social Matrix of Science
Relativizing Science
The Origins of Anthropology
The Origins of Physical Anthropology
Biological Anthropology Today
References and Further Reading
2. Where Did Our Scientific Ideas about Ourselves Come From? (On
the History of Science)
The Beginnings of a New View of Nature
The Scientific Revolution
The Decline of Degeneration
The Anatomy of a
Jon Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. He is a past president of the General
Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association
and was the recipient of the AAA/Mayfield Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching. He is the author of Why I Am Not a
Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge (2009); What It Means
to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes
(2002), which won the 2003 W. W. Howells Prize from the Biological
Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association
and the 2009 J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced
Research; and Human Biodiversity: Genes,
Race, and History (1995).
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