Publisher's Synopsis
"What is new in the twelfth edition? Physical anthropology is a dynamic field. We have updated the entire book on the basis of new information. This is seen most clearly in the chapters on human genetics (Chapters 2 and 3). In the last several years, our knowledge of human genetics has increased enormously. We reorganized, rewrote, and streamlined Chapters 2 and 3 to reflect the new information in genetics that was relevant to physical anthropology. Other areas of significant revision were the chapters on the fossil record of human evolution (Chapters 12 to 15). Again, we included new information that has been published in recent years, but not all of that information. The fact that new information and ideas are published does not necessarily mean that the significants of those finding and concepts are immediately known. So, we did not include every new finding and idea in this edition. An example of why we choose not to include everyth
