ANTH 110 - Intro to Biological Anthropology
OER
Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology. Links to an external site.
- Edited by: Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, Lara Braff (2019)
- CC-BY-NC
- A comprehensive, peer-reviewed, multi-authored OER for introductory biological anthropology courses. This book chapters expolore 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, available Spring 2021
Introduction to Physical Anthropology Links to an external site.
- Arnie Schoenberg (2019)
- CC-BY-NC
- Developed by a CCC 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."
The History of Our Tribe: Hominini Links to an external site.
- Barbara Welker (2017)
- CC-BY-NC-SA
- 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 or General Anthropology or general interest."
Becoming Human: How Evolution Made Us Links to an external site.
- Greg Downey (2013)
- CC-BY-NC 3.0
- 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.
Biological Anthropology Links to an external site.
- Tori Saneda and Michelle Field (2019)
- CC-BY-NC-SA
- This open text is disseminated via the Open Education Resource (OER) LibreTexts Project
- This textbook introduces students to evolutionary theory, nonhuman primates, and human evolution.
Non-OER Digital Resources
Physical Anthropology Tutorials Links to an external site.
- Dennis O'Neil (2014)
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